Need another word that means the same as “evade”? Find 34 synonyms and 30 related words for “evade” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Evade” are: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt, bilk, avoid, escape, escape from, stay away from, steer clear of, run away from, break away from, lose, leave behind, shake, shake off, keep at arm's length, keep out of someone's way, give someone a wide berth, keep one's distance from, not give a straight answer to, bypass, fence, fend off, skirt round, quibble about, be equivocal about, be evasive about
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “evade” as a verb can have the following definitions:
avoid | Contrive not to meet (someone. Boys queued up to take Gloria out but avoided Deirdre. |
be equivocal about | Have life, be alive. |
be evasive about | Form or compose. |
bilk | Evade; elude. Government waste has bilked the taxpayer of billions of dollars. |
break away from | Fracture a bone of nicecutisours. |
bypass | Avoid or circumvent (an obstacle or problem. You cannot bypass these rules. |
circumvent | Find a way around (an obstacle. If you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it. |
dodge | Avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement. He dodged the issue. |
duck | Dip into a liquid. Before he could duck another stone struck him. |
elude | Escape from or avoid (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skilful or cunning way. What you are seeing in him eludes me. |
escape | Be incomprehensible to escape understanding by. The CFCs have escaped into the atmosphere. |
escape from | Issue or leak, as from a small opening. |
fence | Surround or protect with a fence. Walkers may find themselves fenced out of the moor. |
fend off | Withstand the force of something. |
fudge | Tamper, with the purpose of deception. The authorities have fudged the issue. |
give someone a wide berth | Inflict as a punishment. |
hedge | Surround with a hedge. Diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks. |
keep at arm's length | Retain rights to. |
keep one's distance from | Look after; be the keeper of; have charge of. |
keep out of someone's way | Keep under control; keep in check. |
leave behind | Leave behind unintentionally. |
lose | Miss from one s possessions lose sight of. Am I going to lose the baby. |
not give a straight answer to | Bring about. |
parry | Ward off (a weapon or attack) with a countermove. He parried questions from reporters outside the building. |
put off | Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. |
quibble about | Evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections. |
run away from | Pass over, across, or through. |
shake | Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively. Don t shake your fist at me. |
shake off | Undermine or cause to waver. |
sidestep | Avoid dealing with or discussing (something problematic or disagreeable. He neatly sidestepped the questions about riots. |
skirt | Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. The boat skirted the coast. |
skirt round | Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. |
stay away from | Stay the same; remain in a certain state. |
steer clear of | Be a guiding or motivating force or drive. |
apophasis | Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned. |
avert | Turn away or aside. She averted her eyes while we made stilted conversation. |
avoid | Declare invalid. Her former friends now avoid her. |
bypass | An alternative channel created during a bypass operation. The town has been bypassed. |
circumvent | Find a way around (an obstacle. It was always possible to circumvent the regulations. |
deflect | (of an object) change direction after hitting something. The compass needle is deflected from magnetic north by metal in the aircraft. |
denial | A defendant’s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him. It resulted in a complete denial of his privileges. |
derail | Run off or leave the rails. The train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks. |
deter | Turn away from by persuasion. Only a health problem would deter him from seeking re election. |
detour | Avoid by taking a detour. He detoured around the walls. |
dodge | A quick evasive movement. The grant system s widespread use as a tax dodge. |
elude | Escape, either physically or mentally. He tried to elude the security men by sneaking through a back door. |
escape | Escape potentially unpleasant consequences get away with a forbidden action. That was a narrow escape. |
eschew | Avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of. He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence. |
flee | Run away from a place or situation of danger. He was forced to flee the country. |
forfend | Protect (something) by precautionary measures. The sacrifice of Mississippi was forfended against even the treason of Wilkinson. |
horrified | Filled with horror; extremely shocked. The horrified spectators. |
impute | Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. The crimes imputed to Richard. |
obviate | Remove (a need or difficulty. A parachute can be used to obviate disaster. |
oncoming | Approaching from the front; moving towards one. The oncoming of age. |
ostracize | (in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or overly powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote. Ever since I spoke up my colleagues ostracize me. |
outrun | Run or travel faster or further than. It s harder than anyone imagines to outrun destiny. |
parry | An act of parrying something. Her question met with a polite parry. |
refusal | A message refusing to accept something that is offered. He became tired of his friend s refusal to see him. |
repel | Be repellent to cause aversion in. The alleged right of lien led by the bankrupt s solicitor was repelled. |
shun | Expel from a community or group. He shunned fashionable society. |
sidestep | A step taken sideways, typically to avoid someone or something. We learned how to sidestep up the slope and slide cautiously down. |
undiagnosed | Not diagnosed or having been subject to diagnosis. Some patients have diseases that go undiagnosed and therefore untreated. |
veer | Turn sharply; change direction abruptly. The wind veered a point. |
volley | Discharge in or as if in a volley. Gun shots volleyed at the attackers. |
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