- to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade one's pursuers.
- to get around by trickery: to evade rules.
- to avoid doing or fulfilling: to evade an obligation.
- to avoid answering directly: to evade a question.
- to elude; escape: The solution evaded him.
- to avoid doing or fulfilling something.
- to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.
- to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
- to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
- to avoid answering (a question)
