evade

/i'veid/

Thân thiện

The suspect tried to evade the police by hiding behind a large dumpster.

Definition

1. Verb (Transitive):
   • To escape or avoid something, especially by using cleverness, trickery, or deceit.
   • To avoid doing or answering something directly, such as a duty, question, or issue.
   • To be hard to grasp, achieve, or remember; to elude.

Usage

The verb "evade" is used when someone intentionally avoids something unpleasant or unwanted, often through indirect or dishonest means. It can describe physical escape, mental avoidance, or the quality of being difficult to capture or understand.

Examples

• Physical/Mental Escape:
  • The fugitive managed to evade capture for months.
  • The exact meaning of the poem evades me.
• Avoiding Responsibility:
  • The politician evaded the reporter's question about the scandal.
  • You cannot evade your responsibilities forever.
• Eluding Understanding:
  • A simple solution to this complex problem evades us.

Advanced Usage

• "evade the issue/question": To avoid addressing a specific topic or query directly.
  • During the debate, the candidate repeatedly evaded the issue of tax reform.
• "evade capture/detection": To successfully avoid being caught or found.
  • The spy used multiple disguises to evade detection.

Variants and Related Words

• Evasion (n): The act of evading.
  • Tax evasion is a serious crime.
• Evader (n): A person who evades something.
  • He was labeled a draft evader.
• Evasive (adj): Tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation; not direct.
  • She gave an evasive answer to my proposal.

Synonyms

• Elude: To escape from or avoid, typically in a skillful or cunning way.
• Avoid: To keep away from or stop oneself from doing something.
• Dodge: To avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement; to evade (a question) cleverly.
• Shirk: To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Evade" itself is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. The concept is typically expressed by the single verb or its synonyms.)

Related Idioms

• To give someone the slip: To evade or escape from someone.
  • The pickpocket gave the police the slip in the crowded market. (This idiom conveys a similar meaning of clever evasion.)

Học thuật

Verb

1. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
   • The con man always evades
2. practice evasion
   • This man always hesitates and evades
3. escape, either physically or mentally
   • The thief eluded the police
   • This difficult idea seems to evade her
   • The event evades explanation
4. 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

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