evade a question
1evade — /i vād/ vt evad·ed, evad·ing 1: to unlawfully fail to pay (taxes) through fraudulent or deceptive means compare avoid 2: to avoid answering directly trying to evade the question Merriam Webster’s Dictionary …
2evade — [ē vād′, ivād′] vi. evaded, evading [Fr évader < L evadere < e , out, from + vadere, to go: see WADE] 1. Rare to escape; get away 2. to be deceitful or clever in avoiding or escaping something; use evasion vt. 1. to avoid or escape from by… …
3question — I n. query 1) to ask (smb.) a question; to ask a question of smb. 2) to address, pose, put a question to smb. 3) to bring up, raise a question 4) to answer, field, reply to, respond to a question (the senator fielded all questions expertly) 5) to …
4evade — [[t]ɪve͟ɪd[/t]] evades, evading, evaded 1) VERB If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do. [V n] By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real estate speculator... [V n] Delegates accused… …
5evade — [c]/əˈveɪd / (say uh vayd), /i / (say ee ) verb (evaded, evading) –verb (t) 1. to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade pursuit. 2. to get round by trickery: to evade the law; to evade tax responsibilities. 3. to avoid doing or… …
6evade — evadable, evadible, adj. evader, n. evadingly, adv. /i vayd /, v., evaded, evading. v.t. 1. to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade one s pursuers. 2. to get around by trickery: to evade rules. 3. to avoid doing or fulfilling: to evade …
7evade — e‧vade [ɪˈveɪd] verb [transitive] TAX LAW to not do something that you should do according to the law, for example not paying tax: • He was charged with evading $12.6 million of taxes. compare avoid evasion noun …
8evade — [v] get away from avoid, baffle, balk, beat around bush*, beg the question*, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off*, flee, fly, fudge*, get… …
9evade — ► VERB 1) escape or avoid, especially by cunning or trickery. 2) avoid giving a direct answer to (a question). 3) escape paying (tax or duty), especially by illegitimate presentation of one s finances. DERIVATIVES evader noun. ORIGIN Latin… …
10evade — verb 1 escape ADVERB ▪ narrowly ▪ They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching. ▪ successfully VERB + EVADE ▪ attempt to, try to …
