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Synonyms:
- hedge in, confuse, environ, hedge, surround, sidestep, defer, face, border, shirk, overreach, collapse, have a narrow/lucky escape, conceal, disconcert, postpone, weasel, cook, fail, escape, equivocate, dip, finesse, ring, shift, prorogue, get out of, outsmart, shun, elude, beat, burke, waffle, confront, thwart, shrink, put-off, scape, founder, break out, bomb, mince (your) words, parry, languish, decline, spoil, flurry, cloak, dissemble, duck out of, provide against, cross, duck, fudge, recoil, hold over, outwit, shake, take evasive action, skirt, bypass, imply, beleaguer, hem and haw, get around, besiege, subtilize, tergiversate, scotch, lose, avoid, table, abstain, pussyfoot, turn off, skate over/around, wangle, set back, miss, get away, emigrate, seek, stay out of, obliqueness, manipulate, misrepresent, eschew, wriggle out of (doing) something, fence, shelve, falsify, remit, intimate, bilk, throw off, convey, foil, crash, slip, put over, flop, dishearten, quibble, douse, fizzle, cavil, get at, deceive, fake, pretend, backfire, hem in, outfox, shuffle, block, dodge, prevaricate, play it safe, cop out, pettifog, retreat, circumvent, trick, skip, avert, shake off, baffle, deflect, flinch from (doing) something, frustrate
Examples:
- - But his mood soon changed; he was not able to evade the importance which she had assumed for him. - "True and Other Stories", George Parsons Lathrop
- - He read: " We are both in imminent danger unless I can procure sufficient money to help me evade the search that is being made for me. - "The Grell Mystery", Frank Froest
- - This was getting into the subject faster than I had intended, and I determined to take my time, so I said: " Zenith, this province must be the New England of Mars, by the way you evade my question and ask another." - "Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World", James Cowan
