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evasion 音標拼音: [ɪv'eʒən] [iv'eʒən] n. 逃避,藉口 逃避,藉口 evasion n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [ synonym: { evasion}, { equivocation}] 2: the deliberate act of failing to pay money; " his evasion of all his creditors"; " he was indicted for nonpayment" [ synonym: { evasion}, { nonpayment}] [ ant: { defrayal}, { defrayment}, { payment}] 3: 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" [ synonym: { evasion}, { escape}, { dodging}] 4: the act of physically escaping from something ( an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuverevasion \ e* va" sion\ ([- e]* v[= a]" zh[ u^] n), 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. [ 1913 Webster] Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. -- Milton. Syn: Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation. [ 1913 Webster] 142 Moby Thesaurus words for " evasion": abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck- passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy, closeness, concealment, cop- out, cringe, crypticness, cunning, deceit, deception, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, discreetness, discretion, dodge, dodging, double- talk, duck, elusion, elusiveness, emergence, equivocating, equivocation, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasive action, evasiveness, excuse, extrication, fallback, fence- sitting, fencing, flight, flinch, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, freeing, frustration, fudging, getaway, getting around, getting round, haggling, hairsplitting, hedging, hiddenness, hugger- mugger, hugger- muggery, impartiality, independence, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jink, leak, leakage, liberation, logic- chopping, lying, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nit- picking, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, outguessing, outlet, outmaneuvering, outwitting, paltering, parrying, passing the buck, pettifoggery, prevarication, prevention, prisonbreak, pullback, pullout, pussyfooting, quibbling, recoil, refraining, release, rescue, retreat, riddance, runaround, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, setting- free, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophistry, strict neutrality, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the dark, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trichoschistism, trickery, uncommunicativeness, vent, weasel words, wince, zigzag
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