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Synonyms for evade
ɪˈveɪdevade
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Wiktionary
evadeverb
Synonyms:
shuffle, dodge, equivocateevadeverb
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, shuffleevadeverb
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Synonyms:
shuffle, dodge, equivocateevadeverb
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
Princeton's WordNet
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, skirtelude, 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, scotchevadeverb
practice evasion
"This man always hesitates and evades"
Synonyms:
parry, circumvent, hedge, bilk, elude, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, duck, dodgeevadeverb
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
evadeverb
Synonyms:
elude, escape, escape from, steal away from, get away from (by artifice)evadeverb
evadeverb
Synonyms:
equivocate, shuffle, quibble, dodge, prevaricate, palter, cavil
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
evadeverb
Synonyms:
shun, avoid, elude, parry, foil, baffle, prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, quibble
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#464 | table | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1517 | ring | |
#1662 | block | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3282 | border | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10257 | bypass | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#11813 | environ | |
#12304 | shuffle | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#21866 | parry | |
#23567 | defer | |
#24731 | remit | |
#28220 | postpone | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35156 | flurry | |
#35306 | evade | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#81713 | shelve | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#110802 | douse | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#259983 | equivocate | |
#308012 | wangle | |
#311709 | disconcert | |
#322072 | dishearten |
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Our officers are very familiar with the many ways smugglers try to evade inspection, officers learn to think creatively about where things might be hidden because drugs can be anywhere – inside books, auto parts, spools of ribbon, crepe makers, study binders, food, statues, photo frames – if there is space inside an item it could contain something illegal.
The new species managed to evade discovery for nearly three centuries by ‘hiding’ in a messy history of sunfish taxonomy, partially because they are so difficult to preserve and study, even for natural history museums, that is why we named it Mola tecta (the Hoodwinker Sunfish), derived from the Latin tectus, meaning disguised or hidden.
I think he understands that we will be asking him anything and everything that may bear on his credibility in reference to our client Judith Huth's allegations about what happened at the Playboy Mansion, he may try to escape. He's going to evade, but we're going to have a lot of questions.
There are a number of agents that are being looked at in clinical trials that focus on pathways that may allow pancreatic cancer to evade normal processes.
What we now know from this study, namely the JJ and the Novavax study, that antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage, do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wakeup call to all of us that we will be dealing, as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunological pressure, that we will continue to see the evolution of mutants.
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