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evade

verb
/ɪˈveɪd/

Etymology

From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“to pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“to go; walk”). See also wade.

  1. derived from ēvādō — “to pass or go over; flee”
  2. derived from évader

Definitions

  1. To get away from by cunning

    To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

    • He evaded his opponent's blows.
    • The robbers evaded the police.
    • to evade the force of an argument

  2. To escape

    To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.

    • Evading from perils.
    • Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove.

  3. To attempt to escape

    To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

    • The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways.

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Derived

evadable, evadee, evader, evadible, evadingly, evasible, evasion, evasive, unevaded

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at evade. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at evade. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at evade

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA