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Definition of evade:
- To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
- To escape; to slip away; - sometimes with from.
- 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.
Synonyms:
shelve, fence, falsify, environ, frustrate, deceive, pettifog, bilk, slip, get out of, overreach, eschew, circumvent, postpone, flurry, outfox, misrepresent, shake, sidestep, seek, waffle, hem in, cavil, tergiversate, equivocate, get at, fake, fudge, remit, outwit, crash, shake off, weasel, border, beleaguer, besiege, quibble, cloak, pussyfoot, hem and haw, burke, founder, manipulate, dishearten, douse, trick, scotch, confuse, obliqueness, face, languish, elude, cook, bomb, confront, pretend, intimate, skirt, cross, disconcert, put-off, dip, prevaricate, surround, hold over, thwart, wriggle out of (doing) something, spoil, get around, fail, have a narrow/lucky escape, shift, wangle, hedge, flop, play it safe, convey, hedge in, shuffle, throw off, outsmart, turn off, stay out of, baffle, cop out, subtilize, lose, parry, finesse, take evasive action, scape, table, miss, dissemble, flinch from (doing) something, collapse, conceal, mince (your) words, block, backfire, provide against, retreat, beat, fizzle, duck, foil, dodge, ring, defer, prorogue, put over, skate over/around, set back, duck out of, deflect, imply.