Evade

Definitions: Evade

Evade

Verb

1. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues; "He dodged the issue".

2. Escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to elude me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "evade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Evade

Avoidance

Avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against; (oppose); deny oneself.

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Nonobservance

Verb: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.

Reasoning,

Pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead; (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs; misrepresent; (lie).

Crosswords: Evade

Men always evade questions. (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility (reference)

• The Outlaw's Bible: How to Evade the System Using Constitutional Strategy (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

To evade inhibitory proteins from oligodendrocytes, the bridges routed regenerating axons away from white matter, where they would normally grow, and into gray matter. (references)

In the course of this work on vaccines, scientists expect to uncover important information to use against other diseases, to learn more about the body's immune system, and ultimately to outwit the clever viruses that evade that system. (references)

Business

These companies avoid clearing such equipment through Customs to evade duty charges. (references)

Foreign legal entities, which fail to register on time with the tax authorities or attempt to evade registration will be considered in violation of tax law and may incur fines. (references)

Children

Korea

Surveys indicate that most companies either pay the fine or evade the law, with one 1999 survey indicating that 9 out of 10 firms with more than 300 employees failed to meet the mandated 2 percent job quota for persons with disabilities; the hiring of the persons with disabilities remains significantly below target levels. (references)

Economic History

China

Direct selling was quickly modeled after by domestic Chinese companies, some of whom abused this legitimate format of doing business and operated scams to rip off consumers and evade taxes. (references)

Nigeria

The government also imposed a 50 percent duty on all imports that originally were undeclared in the bill of lading as penalty for importers trying to evade import duties through intentional under-invoicing. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

The unarmed Hercouet was trying to evade police arrest after stealing a car, and he allegedly attempted to run over the officers. (references)

Venezuela

As a result, military judges trying human rights cases that predate the Constitution can be subject to improper influence, and offenders might evade punishment for human rights abuses. (references)

Political Economy

PANAMA

Panamanian businesses and families routinely evade Social Security payroll contributions. (references)

Trade

Singapore

Severe penalties may be imposed on traders attempting to evade duty. (references)

Women

Morocco

Nevertheless, women's groups complain that men resort to ruses to evade the legal restrictions. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

Traffickers frequently bribe or evade local law enforcement officials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "evade": evade a question ♦ evade a tax/to ♦ evade arrest ♦ evade definition ♦ evade military service ♦ evade one's duties ♦ evade paying tax ♦ evade responsibility ♦ evade taxes ♦ evade the issue. Additional references.

Afrikaan

vermy (avoid, elude). (various references)

Albanian

shmang (avert, avoid, bypass, deflect, elude, fend off, help, obviate, shun, ward off), shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), rrëshqas (coast, dance, glance off, glide, glissade, ride, skate, skid, slide, slip, slither, toboggan), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), dredhoj (fend off, shirk, use cunning), bie anës, arratisem (break, break out, decamp, elope, escape, run off, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away, take flight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evasion, furtiveness, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle), ‏تهرب (avoidance, be truant, beg the question, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, malinger, shirk, shun, sidestep, skulk, swing the lead), ‏تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), ‏زاغ (duck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отбягвам (avoid, dodge, elude, eschew, fence, give a wide berth, put by, sheer, shrink back, shrink from, shun, sidestep, taboo), не се поддавам на (be superior to, defy, resist), не изпълнявам (disobey), заобикалям (beat, begird, beset, bridge, bypass, circumambulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, double, elude, encircle, environ, get round, gird, girdle, leapfrog, make a detour, pass round, round, short circuit, sidestep, skirt, stretch, surround, work round), занемарявам (abandon, neglect), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight). (various references)

Chinese 

逃避 (escape, shirk). (various references)

Czech

vyhnout se (bypass, dodge, elude, fend off, gloss over, head off, obviate, opt, put by, shirk, sidestep), vyhýbat se (avoid, eschew, keep away, shun, stand aloof, stay off), uniknout (abscond, break, break away, elude, get away, get off), obejít (circumvent, go around, perambulate, round). (various references)

Danish

undvige (avoid, elude), undgå (avoid, elude). (various references)

Dutch

uit de weg gaan (avoid, elude). (various references)

Esperanto

eviti (avoid). (various references)

Faeroese

sleppa frá (avoid, elude). (various references)

Farsi 

گریززدن از, تجاهل کردن (Blink, Connive, Ignore), طفره زدن از, ازسربازکردن . (various references)

Finnish

välttää (avoid, elude, escape, keep away from). (various references)

French

éviter (to take evasive action). (various references)

German

ausweichen (avoid, cower away, dodge, elude, elusiveness, equivocate, escape, evasion, fudge, get out of the way, make way, runaround, sheer away, shiftiness, shirk, shun, side step, sidestep, swerve, to elude, to evade, to shun, to side step, to swerve, unloading, yield), vermeiden (avert, avoid, beware, elude, keep off, obviate, to avoid, to beware). (various references)

Greek 

αποφεύγω (avoid, dodge, eschew, forbear, obviate, shirk, shun, sidestep, stall, stay clear, steer clear of). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעקוף (by pass, bypass, detour, go round, surround), לחמוק (avoid, slink, slip, sneak), ל�"תחמק (dodge, elude, eschew, get away, get out, hedge, run around, shirk, sneak, stall, wriggle), ל�"שתמט (dodge, escape, eschew, malinger, neglect, shirk, swing the lead, temporize). (various references)

Hungarian

elkerül (avoid, escape, shun, to avoid, to escape, to eschew, to evade, to keep off, to obviate, to shun), kitér (dodge, elude, put by, shun, to elude, to evade, to give way to, to jink, to parry, to put off, to touch upon). (various references)

Indonesian

egos, menghindarkan, mengegos, gelicik (avoid). (various references)

Irish

teith ó (avoid), seachain (avoid). (various references)

Italian

evitare (avert, avoid, avoid each other, avoidance, balk, decline, elude, escape, flee, help, prevent, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

茶�'濁す (to deceive or evade), 逃散 (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions), 潜る (to dive, to drive, to evade, to go underground, to hide, to pass through), 引っ掛ける (to catch, to cheat, to drink, to ensnare, to evade payment, to hangon, to hit the ball off the end of the bat, to hook, to jump a bill, to spit at, to throw on, to trap), 引っかける (to catch, to cheat, to drink, to ensnare, to evade payment, to hangon, to hit the ball off the end of the bat, to hook, to jump a bill, to spit at, to throw on, to trap), 借り�'す (to evade payment), 免れる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くぐる (to dive, to drive, to evade, to go underground, to hide, to pass through), ひっかける (to catch, to cheat, to drink, to ensnare, to evade payment, to hangon, to hit the ball off the end of the bat, to hook, to jump a bill, to spit at, to throw on, to trap), まぬがれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of), まぬかれる (to avert, to avoid, to be exempted, to be relieved from pain, to be rescued from, to elude, to escape from, to evade, to get rid of), かりたおす (to evade payment), もぐる (to dive, to drive, to evade, to go underground, to hide, to pass through), とうさ�" (bankruptcy, farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, father, fleeing in all directions, insolvency), ちゃ�'に�"す (to deceive or evade), ちょうさ�" (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions). (various references)

Korean 

기�"�하십시�" (Avoid). (various references)

Malay

menghindari (avoid, elude), hindari (avoid, elude). (various references)

Manx

shaghney (avert, avoid, circumvent, circumvention, defer, deferment, delay, dodge, elude, escape, eschew, obviate, postponement, prevent, renounce, renunciation, repudiate, shirk, shirking, shun, turn away, varnish). (various references)

Norwegian

unngå (avoid, escape), lure seg unna. (various references)

Papiamen

evitá (avoid, elude). (various references)

Pig Latin

evadeay

Polish

unikać. (various references)

Portuguese

evitar (abstain, avert, avoid, bypass, elude, eschew, fence, flee, foil, forbear, funky, give a cold shoulder to, keep off, Parry, preclude, prevent, refrain, shirk, shun, stave off, to avoid, turn a cold shoulder to), evadir (avoid, elope, jump bail). (various references)

Romanian

evita (avoid, balk, baulk, berth, by pass, clear, dodge, elide, elude, escape, eschew, finesse, fly, forbear, keep from, Parry, pass off, put off, save, shun, spare). (various references)

Russian 

ускользать (elude, escape, slink, slip, slip away, slunk, steal away), увернуться (dodge), увильнуть (shirk), отвиливать (dodge), обходить (bypass, circumvent, envelop, get around, get over, get round, outflank, sidestep, sidestepped, sidesteps), не поддаваться (defy, hold one's own, show fight), избегать (avoid, dodge, elude, escaped, eschew, guard against, obviate, put by, shrink, shun, shunned, shunning, steer clear of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mimoići (go by, pass over), izvrdavati (elude, palter, parry, prevaricate), izbeći (avoid, dodge, escape, eschew, flinch). (various references)

Spanish

evitar (avert, avoid, balk, baulk, bypass, circumvent, elude, escape, eschew, exclude, guard against, keep away, obviate, preclude, prevent, provide, save, shirk, shut out, sidestep, spare, stave off, ward off), evadir (abscond, avoid, dodge, escape, get away, pass). (various references)

Swedish

undvika (avoid, avoided, dodge, eschew, fight shy of, flank, flee, fudge, get out of, keep away from, keep off), undgå (avoid, elude, escape, outrun), kringgå (avoid, circumvent, dodge, elude, flank, get round, obviate, put by, skirt, skirt round, surround). (various references)

Tagalog

iwásan (avoid, elude). (various references)

Thai

หลบเลี่ยง (ที่จะกระทำสิ่งที่ไม่�"ี). (various references)

Turkish

yan çizmek (be evasive, cop out, funk, scrimshank, shirk, sidestep, skulk, sneak out of), savuşturmak (avoid, beat off, fend off, get rid of, Parry, turn off, ward off), sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beg, beware, cradle, eschew, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shuffle, shun, shy, steer clear of, Stow), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), kaytarmak (dodge, duck, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, scrimshank, shirk, shuffle, skip, skive, skive off, skulk, sneak out of, swing the lead), kaçamak yapmak (cop out, dodge, elude, have it off), kaçamak cevap vermek (evade a question, fence, prevaricate, shift), kaçınmak (abstain, avoid, balk, baulk, beg, beware, chicken out, dodge, elude, eschew, flee, flee from, flinch, forbear, funk, get out of, keep clear of, refrain, refuse, shirk, short circuit, shun, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, steer clear of, Stow), başından savmak (doff, get rid of, give smb. the run-around, jettison, shake off, shift). (various references)

Ukranian 

ухилятися (avoid, back out, balk, blench, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), утекти (break out, bunk, escape, make away, mizzle, nip, pull it, run off, shank, whip away), не піддаватися (defy, stick out). (various references)

Welsh

osgoi (avoid, shirk, swerve), golaith (avoid). (various references)

detracta, detractant, detractaque, evadat, evadens, evadere, evaderent, evadit, evaserat, evaserit, evaserunt, evasi, evasione, evasissemus, evasit, subterfugi, vita, vitare, vitas, vitem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "evade": evaded, evader, evaders, evades. (additional references)

Words containing "evade": unevaded. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Evade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avadex, Avadi, Devarda, eade, eadem, Eaden, eaved, ecad, efad, elade, Elvedon, enade, envade, Erada, erade, evace, evad, evae, Evald, evale, evane, evase, evate, evde, evid, evide, evie, evoid, evote, Evrard, ezad, hevade, hevede, Levadia, pevade, vead, Velarde. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deave, eaved.

-1 letter: deva, eave.

-2 letters: ave, dee, dev, eve, vee.

-3 letters: ad, ae, de, ed.

+1 letter: deaved, deaves, evaded, evader, evades, heaved, leaved, paveed, reaved, vealed, weaved.

+2 letters: adverse, advisee, avenged, averred, averted, behaved, cleaved, davened, deleave, deprave, devalue, deviate, evaders, gaveled, greaved, havened, havered, medevac, pervade, raveled, ravened, repaved, sheaved, sleaved, valeted, vendace, wavered.

+3 letters: achieved, adhesive, advected, adverted, advisees, averaged, beavered, bereaved, beslaved, caveated, caverned, clavered, cravened, deleaved, deleaves, depraved, depraver, depraves, derivate, devalued, devalues, deverbal, deviance, deviated, deviates, elevated, endeavor, engraved, enslaved, evadable, evadible, everyday, foveated, gavelled, graveled, ideative, inweaved, laveered, lavender, leavened, levanted, marveled, medevacs, medieval, overaged, overawed, overdare, overdear, overhead, overlade, pervaded, pervader, pervades, quavered, ravelled, reavowed, reinvade, reshaved, revalued, revamped, revealed, reweaved, sedative, selvaged, slavered, traveled, unevaded, upheaved, vendable, vendaces, vendetta.

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