- to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape
- to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)
- (also intr) to avoid answering (a question)
eˈvadable adj eˈvader n
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e•vade /ɪˈveɪd/USA pronunciation
v. [~ + object], e•vad•ed, e•vad•ing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024- to escape or avoid esp. by cleverness or trickery:He managed to evade his pursuers.
- See escape.
e•vade
(i vād′),USA pronunciation v., e•vad•ed, e•vad•ing.
v.t.
v.i.
e•vad′a•ble, e•vad′i•ble, adj.
e•vad′er, n.
e•vad′ing•ly, adv.
v.t.
- to escape from by trickery or cleverness:to evade one's pursuers.
- to get around by trickery:to evade rules.
- to avoid doing or fulfilling:to evade an obligation.
- to avoid answering directly:to evade a question.
- to elude;
escape:The solution evaded him.
v.i.
- to practice evasion.
- to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness;
escape.
- Latin ēvādere to pass over, go out, equivalent. to ē- e- + vādere to go, walk
- 1505–15
e•vad′er, n.
e•vad′ing•ly, adv.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged avoid, dodge. See escape.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged prevaricate, equivocate, fence.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged face, confront.
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evade /ɪˈveɪd/ vb (mainly tr)
eˈvadable adj eˈvader n
eˈvadable adj eˈvader n
'evade' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Alpheus
- bail
- beg
- bilk
- blink
- bludge
- chicanery
- circle
- circumvent
- deliberate
- delude
- dipsy-doodle
- ditch
- dodge
- draft dodger
- duck
- elude
- equivocate
- escape
- evasion
- evasive
- fainaigue
- fence
- flee
- fly-by-night
- fraudulent
- fudge
- gee
- get
- get round
- goof
- half-truth
- hedge
- hit-and-run
- illude
- overslip
- parry
- preevade
- prevaricate
- put off
- quibble
- run
- run-out
- ruse
- shadow box
- shirk
- shun
- shunt
- side step
- skirt