Evade vs. Avoid
Evade and Avoid Definitions
Evade
To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit
Managed to evade their pursuers.
Went underground in order to evade arrest.
Avoid
To stay clear of; go around or away from
Swerve to avoid a pothole.
Evade
To avoid complying with or fulfilling
Evade the draft.
Evaded any legal responsibility.
Avoid
To take measures so as not to meet or see (someone)
"He never let go of the idea that she lived out there in order to avoid him" (Elizabeth Benedict).
Evade
To fail to make payment of (taxes).
Avoid
To prevent from happening
You can avoid illness with exercise and a balanced diet.
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Evade
To avoid giving a direct answer to
Talked at length but evaded the interviewer's question.
Avoid
To refrain from using, engaging in, or partaking of
Avoid red meat.
Avoid risky behavior.
Evade
To be beyond the memory or understanding of
The point of the article evades me.
Avoid
To refrain from (doing something)
It was all we could do to avoid laughing at the remark.
Evade
To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping something.
Avoid
(Law) To annul or make void; invalidate.
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Evade
To avoid complying with or fulfilling a requirement.
Avoid
(Obsolete) To void or expel.
Evade
(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from
He evaded his opponent's blows.
The robbers evaded the police.
To evade the force of an argument
Avoid
(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
Evade
(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Avoid
(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
I avoided the slap easily.
One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
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Evade
(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Avoid
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
Evade
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.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
Avoid
To try not to do something or to have something happen
Evade
To escape; to slip away; - sometimes with from.
Unarmed they mightHave easily, as spirits evaded swiftBy quick contraction or remove.
Avoid
To make empty; to clear.
Evade
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.
Avoid
To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
Evade
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully
Avoid
To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
Evade
Escape, either physically or mentally;
The thief eluded the police
This difficult idea seems to evade her
The event evades explanation
Avoid
To emit or throw out; to void.
Evade
Practice evasion;
This man always hesitates and evades
Avoid
To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
Evade
Use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid;
The con mane always evades
Avoid
To get rid of.
Avoid
To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
Avoid
To become void or vacant.
Avoid
To empty.
Avoid
To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
Avoid
To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoidedthe room.
Avoid
To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided?
Avoid
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
What need a man forestall his date of grief.And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
Avoid
To get rid of.
Avoid
To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it.
So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox,Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks.
Avoid
To retire; to withdraw.
David avoided out of his presence.
Avoid
To become void or vacant.
Avoid
Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something;
Her former friends now avoid her
Avoid
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
Let's avoid a confrontation
Head off a confrontation
Avert a strike
Avoid
Refrain from doing something;
She refrains from calling her therapist too often
He should avoid publishing his wife's memoires
Avoid
Refrain from certain foods or beverages;
I keep off drugs
During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day
Avoid
Declare invalid;
The contract was annulled
Void a plea
