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
Not quite the magic cloak Harry Potter fans long for, but proof that high-tech invisibility has moved beyond the “Ghost camouflage” that was recently able to evade night-vision.
The ways our modern tech stack up to sci-fi and fantasy marvels | George Bass | November 8, 2020 | Washington PostThe answer to America’s economic challenges is not to encourage more companies to evade the costs and risks associated with employees.
How a new regulation would let businesses avoid the law by classifying employees as independent contractors | jakemeth | October 31, 2020 | FortuneReal-life sandworms are slightly less terrifying, but equally good at evading capture.
Russia’s ‘Sandworm’ hackers will slither into the sunset | rhhackettfortune | October 20, 2020 | FortuneErnst—who currently serves on the senate committee for agriculture, nutrition, and forestry, and like Greenfield grew up on a farm—evaded the question about soybeans then gave an estimate for the price of corn.
The tech platforms and QAnon supporters will now likely enter into a game of cat and mouse, where users come up with new hashtags and different claims to evade automated filters.
YouTube follows Facebook in banning QAnon, but with caveats | Verne Kopytoff | October 15, 2020 | Fortune
"You bachelors ought to be taxed," said Mrs. Dackford to a resolute evader of the matrimonial noose.
The American Joe Miller | Various
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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