{
    "term": "evade",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "evade",
            "heSheIt": "evades"
        },
        "pastSimple": "evaded",
        "pastParticiple": "evaded",
        "ingForm": "evading"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to escape from somebody/something or avoid meeting somebody",
            "sensetop": "evade (doing) something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For two weeks they evaded the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He managed to **evade capture**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["narrowly", "successfully"],
                "verb + evade": ["attempt to", "try to", "manage to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do",
            "sensetop": "evade (doing) something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is trying to **evade all responsibility** for her behaviour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He never sought to evade his responsibilities."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["simply", "carefully", "neatly"],
                "verb + evade": ["attempt to", "seek to", "try to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to avoid dealing with or talking about something",
            "sensetop": "evade somethingevade doing something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come on, don't you think you're **evading the issue**?",
                    "contextForm": "evade something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to evade answering a question",
                    "contextForm": "evade doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["simply", "carefully", "neatly"],
                "verb + evade": ["attempt to", "seek to", "try to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to not come or happen to somebody",
            "sensetop": "evade somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The answer evaded him *(= he could not think of it)*."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "elude"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evade__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdz/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evades__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evaded__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evading__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evade__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdz/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evades__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evaded__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈveɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ev/evade/evading__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French évader, from Latin evadere from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vadere ‘go’."
}