| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·vade |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -v d |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: e·vad·ed, e·vad·ing, e·vades
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit: evade arrest. 2a. To avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing: evade responsibility. See synonyms at escape. b. To fail to make payment of (taxes). 3. To avoid giving a direct answer to. 4. To baffle or elude: The accident evades explanation. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To practice evasion. 2. To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French évader, from Latin  vdere : -, ex-, ex- + vdere, to go. | | OTHER FORMS: | e·vada·ble, e·vadi·ble —ADJECTIVE
e·vader —NOUN
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