v. t. - 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.
v. t. - To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
v. t. - To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.