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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Evasion \E*va"sion\, n. [L. evasio: cf F. ['e]vasion. See {Evade}.] The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding. Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more --Milton. Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: evasion n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: {equivocation}] 2: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" [syn: {escape}, {dodging}] 3: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
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