Dictionary

evade en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ɪˈveɪd/

Etymology

From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“to pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“to go; walk”). See also wade.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
   • He evaded his opponent's blows.
   • The robbers evaded the police.
   • to evade the force of an argument
   • The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. 1847, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
   • “Evading” is moving through ground occupied by an opponent without trying to knock him down. You can attempt this as part of any maneuver that allows movement, provided you can move fast enough to go past your foe – not just up to him. 2004, “Moving Through Other Characters”, in GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, page 368:
   • If someone tries to evade you from the front (see Evading, p. B368) and you have a melee weapon that can parry, you may roll against weapon skill instead of DX in the Contest. You keep him from evading if you win or tie 2007, “Obstruction”, in GURPS Martial Arts, page 106:
2. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
   • Evading from perils. 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
   • Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
3. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
   • The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

Forms

Deriveds

evasive · evadee · evadingly · evadable · evasion · evasible · unevaded · evader · evadible

Relateds

prevaricate

Synonyms

give someone the runaround · give the go-by · sidestep · end-run · dodge · shuffle · equivocate

Translations (70)

la subterfugio (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · mi karo (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · es evadir (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la subtefugio (to escape or slip away) · km គេច (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · cmn 脫身 /脱身 (to escape or slip away) · hu elkerül (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · it evadere (to attempt to escape) · fr esquiver (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · bg избя́гам (to attempt to escape) · ru ускольза́ть (to escape or slip away) · ca evadir (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · ota قاچمق (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi livistää (to escape or slip away) · bg избя́гвам (to attempt to escape) · es evadir (to attempt to escape) · ru уклоня́ться (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la eludo (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · it eludere (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi väistää (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · vi trốn (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi väistää (to escape or slip away) · nl ontlopen (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la evado (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · de ausweichen (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · it eludere (to escape or slip away) · mi whakatītaha (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · cmn 逃脫 /逃脱 (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · eu itzuri (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi välttää (to escape or slip away) · az yayınmaq (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · it schivare (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi yrittää paeta (to attempt to escape) · ca eludir (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · es evadir (to escape or slip away) · fi livistää (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · bg отбя́гна (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · ca evadir (to escape or slip away) · cmn 閃 /闪 (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · de meiden (to escape or slip away) · es burlar (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la evado (to attempt to escape) · ru избежа́ть (to attempt to escape) · mi papare (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · ang forbūgan (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · cs vyhnout se (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · enm schonten (to escape or slip away) · ru избега́ть (to attempt to escape) · it evadere (to escape or slip away) · vi tránh (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · uk ухиля́тися (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la subterfugio (to escape or slip away) · bg изплъзвам се (to escape or slip away) · es dar esquinazo (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fr s'évader (to escape or slip away) · es soslayar (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · fi välttää (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · mn бултах (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · it evitare (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · bg отбя́гвам (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · cmn 溜走 (to escape or slip away) · fi paeta (to escape or slip away) · ru ускользну́ть (to escape or slip away) · cmn 躲開 /躲开 (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · yue 閃 /闪 (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · de sich entziehen (to attempt to escape) · fi laistaa (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · eo eviti (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · ru уклони́ться (to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, elude) · la evado (to escape or slip away)