evading

Verb

evade (third-person singular simple present evades, present participle evading, simple past and past participle evaded)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
   • Evading from perils.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
3. (intransitive) 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.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London