evade

[ih-veyd] /ɪˈveɪd/

verb (used with object), evaded, evading.

to escape from by trickery or cleverness:

to evade one's pursuers.

Synonyms: avoid, dodge.

Antonyms: face, confront.

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.

verb (used without object), evaded, evading.

to avoid doing or fulfilling something.

to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.

Origin

1505-15; < Latin ēvādere to pass over, go out, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + vādere to go, walk

Related forms

evadable, evadible, adjective

evader, noun

evadingly, adverb

nonevadable, adjective

nonevadible, adjective

nonevading, adjective

nonevadingly, adverb

preevade, verb (used with object), preevaded, preevading.

unevadable, adjective

unevaded, adjective

unevadible, adjective

unevading, adjective

Can be confused

avoid, evade.

Synonym Study

1. See escape.

Examples from the web for evade

She sometimes uses humor to evade a sticky question.
To be mature means to face, and not evade.
It even comes equipped with secret rooms and exits that were used to evade the police.
Known as a rugged survivalist, Rudolph managed to evade arrest for five years.
The bacteria are particularly cunning because they constantly mutate to evade the immune system.
Spammers often falsify their e-mail addresses to evade filters.
But high-priced lawyers helped them evade any stronger punishment.
The ship managed to evade the attackers, but it was raked with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire.
He pleaded guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes.
They evade hunters in the thick brush.

British Dictionary definitions for evade

evade

/ɪˈveɪd/

verb (mainly transitive)

to get away from or avoid (imprisonment, captors, etc); escape

to get around, shirk, or dodge (the law, a duty, etc)

(also intransitive) to avoid answering (a question)

Derived Forms

evadable, adjective
evader, noun
evadingly, adverb

Word Origin

C16: from French évader, from Latin ēvādere to go forth, from vādere to go

Word Origin and History for evade

1510s, "escape," from Middle French evader, from Latin evadere "to escape, get away," from ex- "away" (see ex-) + vadere "to go, walk" (see vamoose). Related: Evaded; evading. Special sense of "escape by trickery" is from 1530s.