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Definitions for Evade

[1] to escape from by trickery or cleverness: to evade one's pursuers.
[2] to get around by trickery: to evade rules.
[3] to avoid doing or fulfilling: to evade an obligation.
[4] to avoid answering directly: to evade a question.
[5] to elude; escape: The solution evaded him.
[6] to avoid doing or fulfilling something.
[7] to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.
[8] to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
[9] to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
[10] (also intr) to avoid answering (a question)

Words related to Evade

dodge, hide, deceive, conceal, flee, avoid, sidestep, elude, bypass, escape, circumvent, pussyfoot, shuffle, fence, confuse, waffle, duck, prevaricate, decline, equivocate

Words nearby Evade

evacuant, evacuate, evacuation, evacuator, evacuee, evade, evadne, evaginate, evagination, evaluate, evaluation

Origin of Evade

1505–15; < Latin ēvādere to pass over, go out, equivalent to ē- e-1 + vādere to go, walk

Words that may be confused with Evade

avoid, 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

Word origin for Evade

C16: from French évader, from Latin ēvādere to go forth, from vādere to go

Synonyms for Evade

avoid, bypass, circumvent, conceal, deceive, dodge, elude, escape, fend off, flee, get around, hide, sidestep, baffle, balk, cavil, confuse, decline, double, duck, equivocate, eschew, fence, fly, fudge, hedge, lie, parry, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, tergiversate, trick, waffle, beat around bush, beg the question, cop out, give the runaround, keep distance, lay low, lead on a merry chase, pass up, put off, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of, weasel