English to English
verb
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
He dodged the issue.
She skirted the problem.
They tend to evade their responsibilities.
He evaded the questions skillfully.
source: WordNet 3.0
- escape, either physically or mentally
The thief eluded the police.
This difficult idea seems to evade her.
The event evades explanation.
source: WordNet 3.0
- practice evasion
This man always hesitates and evades.
source: WordNet 3.0
- use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
The con man always evades.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
source: Webster 1913
- To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [ivéd] Umiwas; umilag; tumakas; tumaanan
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
