📚 Evade, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈveɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery. ❗️ Examples: 1. Friends helped him to evade capture for a time. 2. Many of them, including suspected murderers and rapists, continue to evade police capture for months or even years. 3. Both are cunning predators that can evade any attempts of capture or extinction. 4. Poetry cannot escape ideology nor can evade the class struggle since the latter indirectly or more directly inform the poet's political and artistic consciousness. 5. Several lines of evidence suggest that twig anoles rely more on stealth than speed to capture prey and evade predators. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic