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Evading

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.

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evading

vb. (present participle of evade English)

Usage examples of "evading".

They proclaimed themselves to be the defenders of the poor against the rich, righteously evading the fact that the rich were not Attilas any longer—and the defenders of the weak against the strong, righteously evading the fact that the strength involved was not the strength of brute muscles any longer, but the strength of man’s mind.

She massaged his neck and shoulders briefly, laughingly evading his encircling arms to return to her stove.

Sampson DeVeer listened politely to Ken's theory about rustlers somehow evading the security satellites, but clearly he was finding it hard to believe.

It was an adroit change of subject, but Damia, with a flash return of perception, saw the three were evading her.

Orlith replied, evading, and Moreta knew that she'd get no direct answer.

Mirrim pursed her lips the way Lessa did when she knew someone was evading her.

Her ambitions were great, and she was becoming increasingly convinced that they could not be realized without a guaranteed way of evading the dragonriders.

Jaxom grimaced as he flopped over onto his stomach, burying his face in the pillow, knowing as he did so that he was merely evading that issue.

She liked his face—its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.

Whatever the consequences to Lillian, he would have confessed his adultery publicly, there and in that moment, rather than commit the unspeakable act of evading Dagny's eyes, of closing his face into a coward's blankness, of pretending to her that he did not know the nature of his action.

That woman and all those like her keep evading the thoughts which they know to be good.

And more: this would mean that he, Mitchum, would have to assume responsibility, admit full knowledge of the danger, stand in the open and identify the exact nature of the situation—the one act which the policy of his superiors was based on evading, the one key to their game.

She made a sound of pain and twisted aside, evading Stan’s touch at the cost of burning herself again.

She considered evading his question with half-truths or simple silence.

Without the Arabians, they would have a much better chance of evading any pursuit.