All evade synonyms

verb evade

• equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
• prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• bypass — If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• elude — Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
• escape — An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
• flee — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
• get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• sidestep — to step to one side.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• eschew — Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• fly — to move through the air using wings.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• parry — to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• pussyfoot — to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
• shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
• shirk — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• waffle — waffling language.
• beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• lay low — situated, placed, or occurring not far above the ground, floor, or base: a low shelf.
• pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
• weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• skirt — the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.