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What does evade mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
  2. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
  3. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
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She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
The Utopian ship yawed hard to port in an attempt to evade the incoming ordnance.
There are plenty of human-interest stories and recipes, plus the obligatory tales of gobblers that encounter or evade the guillotine.
His rigorous non-narrative dances do not evade, but more deeply express, the universal stirrings of such tales.
Despite the cactus, this is clearly rangeland, and we carefully evade the barbed wire as we cross into the field.
Somehow, though, the fuel lasted long enough for T-Bone to evade the storm.

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