evading
present participle ofevade
| 单词 | evading |
| 释义 | evading present participle ofevade evade verb[T] uk/ɪˈveɪd/us/ɪˈveɪd/formal toavoidorescapefrom someone or something: Thepolicehaveassuredthepublicthat theescapedprisonerswill not evaderecaptureforlong. Sheleanedforwardtokisshim but he evaded her bypretendingtosneeze. AnOlympicgoldmedalis the only thing that has evaded her in herremarkablecareer. [+ -ing verb]He can't evade doingmilitaryserviceforever. to avoid doing something
evade the issue, question, etc. tointentionallynottalkabout something or notanswersomething: Just give me ananswerandstopevading thequestion! Avoiding action
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Running away and escaping Digressing and being indirect or evasive Examplesofevadingevading In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The national organization had beenevadingsimilar uprisings in the profession for some time. From theCambridge English Corpus We are not free to ignore foot structure as a way ofevadingthis constraint. From theCambridge English Corpus The chronicler turned regicide into a non-problem byevadingthe subject altogether. From theCambridge English Corpus Once they succeeded inevadingthis order, the scheme opened up new opportunities for popular headmen to bind their followers more successfully. From theCambridge English Corpus It was a way ofevadingthe need to face up to their own responsibility for what had happened. From theCambridge English Corpus So theevading-responsibility worry has much more force against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. From theCambridge English Corpus Intelligent actors can sometimes find ways ofevadingthese constraints. From theCambridge English Corpus There also exist disconnected traditions which are handed on through discontinuity and contradiction,evadingthe straight path. From theCambridge English Corpus The passive is condemned as a means ofevadingresponsibility, though the authors acknowledge it to be a general feature of scientific and technical writing. From theCambridge English Corpus A decision to aid draft evaders must consider both the act of draftevadingand the act of lying to avoid conscription. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, flying contributes to an organism's fitness in multiple ways, making it inappropriate to describe it simply as, say, a mechanism forevadingpredators. From theCambridge English Corpus People living in the intermediate foothills and in the grassy alluvial areas could live hidden from the view of outsiders, thusevadingexternal control. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps the most intriguing role proposed for proteases is that ofevadingthe host immune response. From theCambridge English Corpus As the administrative duties imposed by the city steadily increased with the growing administration through the seventeenth century, householders beganevadingthose burdens. From theCambridge English Corpus The ongoing publication of serial sensation novels allowed these forms of pleasure to be continually modified, potentially endlesslyevadingabsorption into the system of power. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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