evade capture/arrest
idiom
: to avoid being captured/arrested
They have evaded capture/arrest so far.
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Seven siblings evade capture and death and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
The final monkeys on the lam would evade capture for over two months.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old Song emperor, Zhao Bing, drowned himself to evade capture by the Mongol navy.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Cut to the two men brawling in the bowels of a derelict ship in the Miami port, where Spencer has imprisoned and ultimately attempts to drown his son to evade capture.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
The final monkeys on the lam would evade capture for over two months.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old Song emperor, Zhao Bing, drowned himself to evade capture by the Mongol navy.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Cut to the two men brawling in the bowels of a derelict ship in the Miami port, where Spencer has imprisoned and ultimately attempts to drown his son to evade capture.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Evade capture/arrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evade%20capture%2Farrest. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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