Synonyms for evade
ɪˈveɪdevade

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1. evadeverb

   Synonyms:
   shuffle, dodge, equivocate

2. evadeverb

   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, shuffle

3. evadeverb

   To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.

   Synonyms:
   shuffle, dodge, equivocate

4. evadeverb

   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

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1. 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, skirt

2. elude, 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, scotch

3. evadeverb

   practice evasion

   "This man always hesitates and evades"

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, hedge, bilk, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodge

4. evadeverb

   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

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Escape

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. evadeverb

   Synonyms:
   elude, escape, escape from, steal away from, get away from (by artifice)

2. evadeverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid, shun, decline

3. evadeverb

   Synonyms:
   equivocate, shuffle, quibble, dodge, prevaricate, palter, cavil

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1. evadeverb

   Synonyms:
   shun, avoid, elude, parry, foil, baffle, prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, quibble

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "evade":

   shirk, circumvent, escape, avoid, sidestep, elude, bypass, side-step, dodge

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How to use evade in a sentence?

1. Lawrence Durrell:

   For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

2. Brandon Judd:

   Those checkpoints are there to interdict the people trying to evade apprehension.

3. Natasha Merle:

   Amid a national policing crisis, we need to focus more attention than ever on reshaping how this country approaches public safety, this requires meaningful engagement with the public, and with all interested stakeholders. Today's ruling ensures that the government will not be able to evade the law to pursue a skewed agenda.

4. Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti:

   Certainly, itsnot permissible to use an LLC or any other kind of LLC or any other kind of intermediary to conceal the recipient or purpose of a PACs spending, the law requires the PACto report who it disperses money to. You canttry to evade that by routing it through an LLC or corporation or anyone else.

5. Border Protection spokesperson:

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Miami International Airport apprehended a 26-year-old man who attempted to evade detection inthelanding gearcompartmentof an aircraft arriving from GuatemalaSaturday morning.