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, evade, 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, evade, 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

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1. • Act
   • Escape

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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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1. Alfred North Whitehead:

   Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

2. President Biden:

   Any time something like this happens it's going to make you second guess the actions that you take, and the problem with that is when you're second guessing what you're supposed to be doing, people could evade apprehension, you could end up getting yourself hurt, you could end up getting innocent third parties hurt -- because you don't take the actions that are necessary because you're worried you're going to be second guessed by the president of the United States, we’re not talking about being second guessed by someone with a camera, we’re talking about being second guessed by the president of the United States and that's the political situation we’re currently under, and any time that happens of course we’re going to be very, very leery about the actions we take.

3. Albert Bourla:

   Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade -- in a skillful way -- the immune protection that we're giving.

4. Brandon Judd:

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

5. Giorgio Cafiero:

   Common interests in helping the other evade sanctions are important to these dynamics in Russia-Iran relations.