evade

evade is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
2. transitive verb. To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
3. transitive verb. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
4. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"

   "she skirted the problem"

   Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

5. verb. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

   "The con man always evades"

6. verb. escape, either physically or mentally

   "The thief eluded the police"

   "This difficult idea seems to evade her"

   Synonyms: bilk, elude

7. verb. practice evasion

   "This man always hesitates and evades"

Synonyms

circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt, bilk

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in evade:

deave, eaved

Common word forms

evaded, evader, evades, evading

Words from these letters

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