EVADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evade mean? 

• EVADE (verb)
  The verb EVADE has 4 senses:

1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

2. escape, either physically or mentally

3. practice evasion

4. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

  Familiarity information: EVADE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they evade    ... he / she / it evades   
Past simple: evaded   
Past participle: evaded   
-ing form: evading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

circumvent; dodge; duck; elude; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; sidestep; skirt

Context example:

he evaded the questions skillfully

Hypernyms (to "evade" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "evade"):

beg (dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted)

quibble (evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

evasion (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Escape, either physically or mentally

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bilk; elude; evade

Context example:

The event evades explanation

Hypernyms (to "evade" is one way to...):

break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

evasion (the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Practice evasion

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

This man always hesitates and evades

Hypernyms (to "evade" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

evasive (deliberately vague or ambiguous)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The con man always evades

Hypernyms (to "evade" is one way to...):

escape; get away; get by; get off; get out (escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Steerforth evaded the question for a little while; looking in scorn and anger on his opponent, and remaining silent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The efforts by the host to reject a tumor, and the mechanisms by a tumor to evade recognition by the immune system.

(Host-Tumor Interaction, NCI Thesaurus)

In its closed, pre-fusion state, Env can evade immune system attack.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

I evaded the question by general answers; “that I had satisfied the Emperor and court in all particulars.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

While panobinostat is already in early clinical testing in DIPG patients, its usefulness may be limited because cancer cells can learn to evade its effects.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

RSV F protein, a small envelop glycoprotein, is not only required for cytopathic syncytia resulting from cell-to-cell fusion, but is also necessary for viral spreading and evading neutralizing antibody.

(Palivizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I seem to have received, with full force, the blow I had been trying to evade.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The parasite can cause extraintestinal infection, like amoebic liver abscess, by evading the immune response.

(Amoebiasis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)