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

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1. List of paraphrases for "evade":

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

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1. Samuel Cooke:

   Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.

2. Joseph Bonavolonta:

   Usma Acosta is a convicted cold-blooded killer who thought Usma Acosta could evade justice by entering the United States and creating a new identity for Usma Acosta so Usma Acosta could live under the radar. Usma Acosta needs to face justice for what Usma Acosta did, and today's arrest ensures that Usma Acosta will.

3. Aristides Hatzis:

   The way they're trying to sell it is good: We won't cut wages and pensions, and we'll target the rich, but in Greece, it makes sense to tax evade if you can, because you win, because the chances of being caught are very small, and because it's socially accepted. Your neighbors won't tell on you.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   those who lie about trench town reggae will always try to evade me and- the searching for truth questions- which I will ask them. the questions I ask, will show them up to be liars. so far, none has dared to accept my challenges after all these years. they fear my -(c) reggae polygraphy.

5. Liu Bingjiang:

   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.