evade

To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

Verb

To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
- He evaded his opponent's blows.
- The robbers evaded the police.
- to evade the force of an argument
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- Evading from perils. - 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William...
- Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. - 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];...
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. - 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“to pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“to go; walk”). See also wade.