Synonyms for evade
Definitions
- v. 1
To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
The robbers evaded the police.
Forms
- Past participle
- evaded
e.g. evaded → dodged, eluded, avoided, sidestepped…
Example sentences
- avoid She started early in order to avoid the rush hour.
- dodge I was somehow able to dodge the attack with ease.
- elude Tom managed to elude the police for three weeks.
- sidestep He attempted to sidestep a conflict with his chief.
By length
- 4 letters
- duck1, foil1, shun1, bilk1
- 5 letters
- avoid2, fence1, dodge1, hedge1, blink1, parry2, fudge1, elude2, shirk1, cavil
- 6 letters
- escape2, baffle2
- 7 letters
- decline2, shuffle2, quibble2
- 8 letters
- sidestep2
- 10 letters
- circumvent3, equivocate4
- 11 letters
- prevaricate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avoid2 = 2 syllables).