abstain, boggle, deceive, evade the issue, get around, hedge, outfigure, pass the buck, sheer off, skip, thwart
Definitionv. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling
Last update: June 16, 2015
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Party leader managed to evade all difficult questions. [verb]
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This, he said, would lead to an increase in correspondence and virtually abolish all attempts to evade paying postage. [verb]
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He faked the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome to evade active service. [verb]
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But, unwilling to alarm the fears of Alice, she evaded a direct reply, betraying only by her anxious looks fastened on the slightest movements of her captors. [verb]
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"Even so," replied Lovel, patiently submitting to an interrogatory which he could not well evade. [verb]
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But Edie had been in his time accustomed to cross-examination, and easily evaded those of his quondam comrade. [verb]
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"And yet," said Amasis, "Death has for us too his terrors, and we do all in our power to evade his grasp." [verb]
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They found it easy enough to evade the importunities of impudent fishsellers, and the friendly invitations of butchers, bakers, sausage and vegetable-sellers, and potters. [verb]
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Thus Ben-Hur evaded the whole truth. [verb]
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But Rome could not evade her destiny; the end of her expiations had not come. [verb]
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To evade an answer, he peered over the parapet again, just as the guard were assisting the Roman to remount his horse. [verb]
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