- (v.t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
- (v.t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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