evade
evade is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.
- 2.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. South. Syn. - To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- aside
- back
- bad
- break
- cancel
- close
- coach
- declare
- discard
- disobedience
- drive
- elude
- elusive
- evasion
- evasive
- fail
- failure
- faith
- fling
- foot
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- from
- fulfill
- give
- go-by
- ignore
- informality
- infraction
- infringe
- infringement
- inobservance
- laches
- lawless
- laxity
- naught
- neglect
- nonobservance
- null
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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