Evade synonyms
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Dissemble is defined as to hide or be dishonest about your true motives, feelings or beliefs.
To cover or conceal with a cloak or something that acts like a cloak:
To keep from being observed or discovered; hide.
Deceive is defined as to make someone believe something that isn't true.
be evasive
To use trickery to avoid an issue
To deal in stolen goods
To deflect or ward off (a fencing thrust, for example).
change the subject
To use trickery to avoid an issue
To take upon oneself; venture:
To confuse is to make someone bewildered or unable to understand, or to mistake one thing for something else.
To border or edge with something
To try to avoid or lessen loss in connection with (a bet, risk, etc.) by making counterbalancing bets, investments, etc.
Cavil means to disapprove for minor reasons.
To render subtle:
(Intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate.
dodge the issue
To use trickery to avoid an issue
(Slang) To move (in or out) quickly
give-someone-the-runaround
(Idiomatic) To delay, dodge, or frustrate (someone), especially by providing useless information or directions .
To mumble and procrastinate in one's speech, especially with a reply to a hard question or with voicing a decision on a topical matter; to evade a question, giving vague answers; to equivocate.
(Informal) To act or proceed cautiously or timidly to avoid committing oneself.
throw off the scent
To use trickery to avoid an issue
lead one a merry chase
To use trickery to avoid an issue
(Slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
To use trickery to avoid an issue
(Idiomatic) To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
weasel out of
To use trickery to avoid an issue
lie one's way out of
To use trickery to avoid an issue
To break loose from confinement; get free:
To escape detection, notice, or understanding by
slip-out
To leave quietly, and unnoticed.
sneak away from
To avoid a meeting
face (antonym)
To occupy a position with the face toward:
confront (antonym)
To something bring face to face with.
make clear (antonym)
To use trickery to avoid an issue
elucidate (antonym)
To explain or clarify something:
To refrain from (doing something):
The definition of baffle is confuse.
To go around instead of through; use a bypass to avoid
Ditch is defined as to lose someone or something on purpose.
To move or twist quickly aside; shift suddenly, as to avoid a blow
To use equivocal terms in order to deceive, mislead, hedge, etc.; be deliberately ambiguous
To foil is defined as to keep something from happening.
To keep oneself out of sight; conceal oneself
To perform or cause to perform a maneuver or maneuvers
To utter or say in an evasive manner.
Shirk is defined as to avoid or get out of doing something that should be done.
To step out of the way of.
meet (antonym)
Meet is defined as to come face to face with, be there when someone or something arrives, or to be introduced.
take on (antonym)
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To show emotion, to grieve or be concerned about something or someone.
(Idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
To brandish or wave, especially in anger:
fight-shy-of
give a wide berth to
have no truck with
keep (or stay) (or steer) clear of
give someone the shake (or slip)
seek (related)
To inquire for; request:
To go beyond the proper limits of something:
To manage to get away from; elude
To move with short sliding steps, without or barely lifting the feet:
To exchange (one thing) for another of the same class:
Find another word for evade. In this page you can discover 76 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for evade, like: dissemble, cloak, conceal, deceive, be evasive, fence, parry, change the subject, pretend, confuse and pettifog.