to evade

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keep away from

He tried to keep away from his pursuers.

To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from

Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — John Milton.

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to avoid by artifice
{v} to avoid, escape, shift off, baffle
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit. She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer
use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades" practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades
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
To escape; to slip away; sometimes with from
escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades"
If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do. By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator Delegates accused them of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding
{f} avoid, run away, shirk
To escape; to slip away; - sometimes with from
practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it. Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue
practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades
to evade
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