Crossword clues for evaded
evaded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evade \E*vade"\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'['e]vader. See Wade.] 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.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of
evading the Christian miracles.
--Trench.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: evade)
Usage examples of "evaded".
She was struggling to find an honest reply to a question she had evaded in her own heart, when Alessan contritely covered her hand, his expression pleading with her to forgive his rash remarks.
He evaded a roundhouse kick Keff aimed at him, grabbed Keff's leg, and propelled him backward over the stack of crates toward the image of the third console.
He almost suspected the snakes of rudimentary interngence the way some evaded Teams and Beaters.
The snake evaded his blow and wound up the shaft on to the saddle before he could drop it.
Drowsily, she evaded full consciousness until she felt her arm crooked, felt the scrape of linen against her skin, the warmth of a small rounded form, hands against her right nipple, the coolness of a wet sponge, then the fumbling of small wet lips and the incredible pleasur able pain caused by a suckling child.
Lona swung at him with an empty casserole dish, but he evaded her, and fled into the common room.
She evaded a direct "no" because she valued Keff, respected his notion that she should have the chance to experience life outside the shell, join him in his projects with an immediacy that she could not enjoy encapsulated.
However, Lanzecki would know that she had gone, and know, too, that she would not have evaded the responsibility she had accepted.
Killashandra couldn't bear to think of it and quickly evaded further discussion of that.
She twisted and bit at him, tried to knee his crotch but he was quicker, stronger and fitter than she and evaded her savage attempts to inflict enough pain to get free.
But the cat evaded Mooney's dagger by springing straight across the shaft of Minkus's spear, knocking it aside.
The firemen, who were well drilled and had already had to control small fires, arrived with firehoses, which held off the few wherries that evaded the little defenders.
Suddenly Ruth veered, the riding straps cutting into Jaxom's left thigh as the white dragon evaded a thick clump.
It is not to be hidden, evaded, or explained away by all the propaganda of capitalism's enemies.
Tl belief is contradicted by the most fundamental facts a principles of economics—facts and principles which are s] tematically evaded by labor leaders, legislators, and intelle tuals of the statist persuasion.