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Past tense of evade

regular verb

The past tense of evade is evaded. The past participle is also evaded.

Forms of evade

Base form (V1)evade /ɪˈveɪd/
Past tense (V2)evaded
Past participle (V3)evaded
Present participleevading
Third person singularevades

Evaded in a sentence

  • He evaded his opponent's blows.
  • The robbers evaded the police.
  • A suspected murderer who evaded police for 18 years has been captured in Lichuan, Xinzhou.org reports.2014 December 28, Mandy Zuo, “Exploding electric hot-water bottle maims woman”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Yuanping
  • The primary suspect evaded police but was found and arrested on Sunday morning in Tainan’s Syuejia District, reported UDN.2023 December 3, Duncan DeAeth, “Suspect in shooting death of 43-year-old man arrested in south Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the…. From the entry Syuejia
  • Labor of mind facilitly may be evaded by imitation: for, so, sollicitude of mind conducive to invention becomes supervacuous.2004, Frederick William Rolfe, Don Renato: An Ideal Content, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry supervacuous

Meaning of evade

  1. verb To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
  2. verb To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. verb To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Full definition of evade

Questions about the past tense of evade

What is the past tense of evade?
The past tense of evade is evaded.
What is the past participle of evade?
The past participle of evade is evaded.
Is evade a regular or irregular verb?
Evade is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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