evade
to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade one's pursuers.
to get around by trickery: to evade rules.
to avoid doing or fulfilling something.
to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.
Origin of evade
1synonym study For evade
Other words for evade
Opposites for evade
Other words from evade
- e·vad·a·ble, e·vad·i·ble, adjective
- e·vad·er, noun
- e·vad·ing·ly, adverb
- non·e·vad·a·ble, adjective
- non·e·vad·i·ble, adjective
- non·e·vad·ing, adjective
- non·e·vad·ing·ly, adverb
- pre·e·vade, verb (used with object), pre·e·vad·ed, pre·e·vad·ing.
- un·e·vad·a·ble, adjective
- un·e·vad·ed, adjective
- un·e·vad·i·ble, adjective
- un·e·vad·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with evade
- avoid, evade
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How to use evade in a sentence
In the 1999 film starring Pierce Brosnan, an art thief evades capture by hiding in plain sight.
Samantha Lewthwaite: ‘White Widow’ Involved in Kenya Attack? | Nico Hines | September 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is time for a Jewish conversation that faces—rather than evades—the realities of our time.
Watch: Weiner Evades Questions on Rachel Maddow “Is this you?”
Palin is asked the question, but evades it with monologue about how great Oprah is.
With a sinuous determination she evades disagreeables and pursues delights.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment | Ellen H. Richards
The tribute due to the Ferryman is also related in Chrêtien, where Gawain evades it in the same manner.
Parzival (vol. 2 of 2) | Wolfram von EschenbackKrishna still evades them and they return to the terrace where the night's dancing had begun.
The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry | W. G. ArcherIt presents itself in such a multitude of forms that it almost evades definition.
Violence and the Labor Movement | Robert HunterMinisters and other good men have repeatedly tried to save him, but he evades all their efforts, avoids all their sermons.
Discourses of Keidansky | Bernard G. Richards
British Dictionary definitions for evade
/ (ɪˈveɪd) /
to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
(also intr) to avoid answering (a question)
Origin of evade
1Derived forms of evade
- evadable, adjective
- evader, noun
- evadingly, adverb
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