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
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
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