MEANING
To avoid a pursuer, question, duty, or restriction through skillful avoidance.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- evade a question
- evade detection
On the page
She evaded the question by asking another.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- evade
- Past tense
- evaded
- Past participle
- evaded
- Present participle
- evading
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- evade
- Present continuous
- am/is/are evading
- Present perfect
- have/has evaded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been evading
- Past
- evaded
- Past continuous
- was/were evading
- Past perfect
- had evaded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been evading
- Future
- will evade
- Future continuous
- will be evading
- Future perfect
- will have evaded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been evading
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: evade; evades; evaded; evaded; evading Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: evades.
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