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"ref": "1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:",
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"text": "Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove.",
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"derived": [
{
"word": "evadee"
},
{
"word": "evadible"
},
{
"word": "evasible"
},
{
"word": "evasion"
},
{
"word": "evasive"
}
],
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*weh₂dʰ-"
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"name": "root"
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "évader"
},
"expansion": "Middle French évader",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "ēvādō",
"4": "",
"5": "I pass or go over; flee"
},
"expansion": "Latin ēvādō (“I pass or go over; flee”)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“I pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“I go; walk”). See also wade.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "evades",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "evading",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
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{
"form": "evaded",
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"participle",
"past"
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{
"form": "evaded",
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "prevaricate"
}
],
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He evaded his opponent's blows.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The robbers evaded the police.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "to evade the force of an argument",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1847, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:",
"text": "The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, “Moving Through Other Characters”, in GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, page 368:",
"text": "“Evading” is moving through ground occupied by an opponent without trying to knock him down. You can attempt this as part of any maneuver that allows movement, provided you can move fast enough to go past your foe – not just up to him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, “Obstruction”, in GURPS Martial Arts, page 106:",
"text": "If someone tries to evade you from the front (see Evading, p. B368) and you have a melee weapon that can parry, you may roll against weapon skill instead of DX in the Contest. You keep him from evading if you win or tie",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from"
],
"links": [
[
"get away",
"get away"
],
[
"cunning",
"cunning"
],
[
"avoid",
"avoid"
],
[
"dexterity",
"dexterity"
],
[
"subterfuge",
"subterfuge"
],
[
"escape",
"escape"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:",
"text": "Evading from perils.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from."
],
"links": [
[
"escape",
"escape"
],
[
"slip away",
"slip away"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:",
"text": "The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding."
],
"links": [
[
"attempt",
"attempt"
],
[
"artifice",
"artifice"
],
[
"sophistry",
"sophistry"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪˈveɪd/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪd"
},
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "equivocate"
},
{
"word": "shuffle"
},
{
"word": "dodge"
},
{
"word": "end-run"
},
{
"word": "sidestep"
},
{
"word": "give the go-by"
},
{
"word": "give someone the runaround"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "yayınmaq"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "itzuri"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjágvam",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отбя́гвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjágna",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отбя́гна"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "evadir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "eludir"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "閃"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "sim²",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "闪"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "閃"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎn",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "闪"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vyhnout se"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "ontlopen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "eviti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "väistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "livistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "laistaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "esquiver"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "ausweichen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "elkerül"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "kɨc",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "គេច"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "evado"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "eludo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "subterfugio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "karo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "papare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "whakatītaha"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "bultax",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "бултах"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "forbūgan"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kaçmak",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "قاچمق"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonjátʹsja",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уклоня́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uklonítʹsja",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уклони́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "evadir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "soslayar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "dar esquinazo"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "uxyljátysja",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "ухиля́тися"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "tránh"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude",
"word": "trốn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izplǎzvam se",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "изплъзвам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "evadir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "paeta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "livistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "välttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "väistää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "s’évader"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "meiden"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "evado"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "subtefugio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "subterfugio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uskolʹzátʹ",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ускольза́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uskolʹznútʹ",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ускользну́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to escape or slip away",
"word": "evadir"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izbjágvam",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "избя́гвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izbjágam",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "избя́гам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"word": "yrittää paeta"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"word": "sich entziehen"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"word": "evado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbegátʹ",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "избега́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbežátʹ",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "избежа́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attempt to escape",
"word": "evadir"
}
],
"word": "evade"
}
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