to get away from or avoid (somebody or something), esp by skill or deception
to avoid facing up to or answering (something)
You are evading the issue
to fail to pay (taxes, etc)
to get around or fail to observe (a law, etc)
to baffle or foil (something or somebody)
The problem evades all efforts at solution
to take refuge by evasion
evadable adj
evader noun
[via French from Latin evadere, from ex-1 + vadere to go, walk]