1. [v]  avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
2. [v]  use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con mane always evades"
3. [v]  escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
4. [v]  practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

EVADE is a 5 letter word that starts with E.

1. \E*vade"\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evaded}; p. pr. & vb.
   n.. {Evading}.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go,
   walk: cf. F. s'['e]vader. See {Wade}.]
   To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity,
   subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from
   cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to
   evade the force of an argument.
   
         The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of
         evading the Christian miracles.          --Trench.
   
   

2. \E*vade"\, v. t.
   1. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. ``Evading
      from perils.'' --Bacon.
   
            Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded
            swift By quick contraction or remove. --Milton.
   
   2. 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.       --South.
   
   Syn: To equivocate; shuffle. See {Prevaricate}.