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, 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, 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. Jonathan Turley:

   There will be particular attention to whether there were gaps between barriers and any police cruiser.This vehicle appeared to get through the barrier at a high enough speed to then evade following officers. It also appears completely functional after forcing its way through to the parade route. That raises concerns over the placement of the barriers.

2. Lawrence Durrell:

   For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

3. Giorgio Cafiero:

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

4. Fritz Kunkel:

   To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

5. Merrick Garland:

   The final rule submitted today makes clear that firearm manufacturers, dealers and individuals cannot evade the important public safety protections passed by Congress simply by adding accessories to pistols that transform them into short-barreled rifles.