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Synonyms for evade
ɪˈveɪdevade
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Wiktionary
evadeverb
Synonyms:
shuffle, dodge, equivocateevadeverb
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. — Richard Chenevix Trench.
Synonyms:
dodge, equivocate, shuffleevadeverb
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Synonyms:
shuffle, dodge, equivocateevadeverb
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. — Robert South.
Synonyms:
equivocate, dodge, shuffle
Princeton's WordNet
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb
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"
Synonyms:
put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirtelude, evade, bilkverb
escape, either physically or mentally
"The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
Synonyms:
fudge, duck, hedge, dodge, skirt, bilk, frustrate, circumvent, baffle, foil, cross, elude, parry, thwart, put off, spoil, sidestep, escape, scotchevadeverb
practice evasion
"This man always hesitates and evades"
Synonyms:
parry, circumvent, hedge, bilk, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodgeevadeverb
use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
"The con man always evades"
Synonyms:
parry, circumvent, hedge, bilk, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodge
Dictionary of English Synonymes
evadeverb
Synonyms:
elude, escape, escape from, steal away from, get away from (by artifice)evadeverb
evadeverb
Synonyms:
equivocate, shuffle, quibble, dodge, prevaricate, palter, cavil
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
evadeverb
Synonyms:
shun, avoid, elude, parry, foil, baffle, prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, quibble
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#464 | table | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1662 | block | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3282 | border | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10257 | bypass | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#12304 | shuffle | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23567 | defer | |
#24731 | remit | |
#28220 | postpone | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35156 | flurry | |
#35306 | evade | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#81713 | shelve | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#110802 | douse | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#259983 | equivocate | |
#308012 | wangle | |
#311709 | disconcert | |
#322072 | dishearten |
How to use evade in a sentence?
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
They wanted to evade attribution for his death because they wanted to avoid political fallout in the UK.
When weighing the degree of force used, a prosecutor must pay careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight, i find the facts of this case clearly illustrate the officers who used deadly force on Andrew Brown Jr. did so reasonably and only when a violent felon used a deadly weapon to place their lives in danger.
In that situation, you could push the virus to adapt... not only to transmit faster -- they can -- but also to evade immunity, some of these lineages that have already evolved to evade, at least, natural immunity. Still, they are not able to evade a vaccine - produced immunity.
There is no way for local officials to evade punishment by using weather conditions as an excuse, similarly, the economic situation cannot be used as an excuse.
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