evade

Verb

Verb Forms: evaded, evading, evades

• To escape or avoid, often by cleverness or deception.
• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • "They tend to evade their responsibilities"
  • "he evaded the questions skillfully"
• escape, either physically or mentally
  • "This difficult idea seems to evade her"
  • "The event evades explanation"
• practice evasion
  • "This man always hesitates and evades"
• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid
  • "The con man always evades"
• To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
• To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
• To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Examples

• A skilled Scrabble player can EVADE traps set by opponents by finding unexpected parallel plays.
• He evaded his opponent's blows.
• The robbers evaded the police.
• to evade the force of an argument

Synonyms

bilk, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt, end-run, equivocate, give someone the runaround, give the go-by, shuffle

Related Words

prevaricate, EVADABLE, EVADIBLE