Evade

English

Verb

Evade (third-person singular simple present Evades, present participle evading, simple past and past participle evaded)

1. 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.
2. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
3. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Adverbs for Evade

gracefully; studiously; partially; slyly; treacherously; cleverly; dexterously.

Synonyms for Evade

equivocate, shuffle, dodge, avoid, prevaricate, lie, shun, elude, trick, quibble, shift, cavil, mystify, dissemble, cover, conceal, deceive, pretend, confuse.

Antonyms for Evade

acknowledge, approach, meet, testify, declare, face, confront, approach, encounter, clarify, explain, expound, elucidate, confess, illustrate, confirm, verify, prove.

Derived terms

• evadible
• evasible
• evasion
• evasive

Thesaurus

abstain, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, bail out, beat about, beg, beg the question, bicker, bilk, blench, blink, boggle, break away, break jail, break loose, bypass, cavil, cheat, choplogic, circumvent, cop out, cringe, cut loose, deceive, ditch, dodge, double, draw back, duck, duck the issue, elude, equivocate, escape, escape prison, eschew, evade the issue, fade, fall back, falsify, fence, flee, flinch, fly, fly the coop, foil, frustrate, fudge, get around, get away, get away from, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go one better, hang back, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, jib, jump, lie, make a getaway, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, palter, parry, pass the buck, pick nits, prevaricate, pull back, pussyfoot, quail, quibble, recoil, reel back, retreat, shake, shake off, sheer off, shift, shift about, shirk, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shuffle out of, shun, shy, sidestep, sit it out, skip, skirt, slip away, slip the collar, split hairs, stand neuter, start aside, start back, stonewall, straddle, swerve, tergiversate, thwart, trim, turn aside, victimize, waffle, weasel, weasel out, wince

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd