evade

Verb

Meaning

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.

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

To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dodge sidestep hedge circumvent elude equivocate parry duck fudge avoid escape flee skirt quibble shirk
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Antonyms

noggin pate see study court experience
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Hypernyms

move act avoid escape get off get out

Hyponyms

quibble beg

Phrases with the word

evade one's duty evade the issue evade a chance evade a risk evade the chance evade the risk

Derivatives

evaded evading

Anagrams

deave eaved

Examples

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. Ayn Rand

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. C. S. Lewis

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills. Elbert Hubbard

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within. Rollo May

Close letter words and terms

evacuee evacuole evadable evade a chance evade a question evade a risk