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Meaning of "evade" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EVADE

From French évader, from Latin ēvādere to go forth, from vādere to go.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EVADE

evade  [ɪˈveɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EVADE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Evade is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb evade in English.

WHAT DOES EVADE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of evade in the English dictionary

The first definition of evade in the dictionary is to get away from or avoid ; escape. Other definition of evade is to get around, shirk, or dodge. Evade is also to avoid answering.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO EVADE

PRESENT

Present
I evade
you evade
he/she/it evades
we evade
you evade
they evade
Present continuous
I am evading
you are evading
he/she/it is evading
we are evading
you are evading
they are evading
Present perfect
I have evaded
you have evaded
he/she/it has evaded
we have evaded
you have evaded
they have evaded
Present perfect continuous
I have been evading
you have been evading
he/she/it has been evading
we have been evading
you have been evading
they have been evading
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I evaded
you evaded
he/she/it evaded
we evaded
you evaded
they evaded
Past continuous
I was evading
you were evading
he/she/it was evading
we were evading
you were evading
they were evading
Past perfect
I had evaded
you had evaded
he/she/it had evaded
we had evaded
you had evaded
they had evaded
Past perfect continuous
I had been evading
you had been evading
he/she/it had been evading
we had been evading
you had been evading
they had been evading
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will evade
you will evade
he/she/it will evade
we will evade
you will evade
they will evade
Future continuous
I will be evading
you will be evading
he/she/it will be evading
we will be evading
you will be evading
they will be evading
Future perfect
I will have evaded
you will have evaded
he/she/it will have evaded
we will have evaded
you will have evaded
they will have evaded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been evading
you will have been evading
he/she/it will have been evading
we will have been evading
you will have been evading
they will have been evading
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would evade
you would evade
he/she/it would evade
we would evade
you would evade
they would evade
Conditional continuous
I would be evading
you would be evading
he/she/it would be evading
we would be evading
you would be evading
they would be evading
Conditional perfect
I would have evade
you would have evade
he/she/it would have evade
we would have evade
you would have evade
they would have evade
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been evading
you would have been evading
he/she/it would have been evading
we would have been evading
you would have been evading
they would have been evading
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you evade
we let´s evade
you evade
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to evade
Past participle
evaded
Present Participle
evading
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EVADE


afraid
əˈfreɪd
aid
eɪd
aide
eɪd
arcade
ɑːˈkeɪd
blade
bleɪd
grade
ɡreɪd
handmade
ˌhændˈmeɪd
invade
ɪnˈveɪd
made
meɪd
paid
peɪd
parade
pəˈreɪd
paveed
pæˈveɪd
pervade
pɜːˈveɪd
reinvade
ˌriːɪnˈveɪd
trade
treɪd
unpurvaide
ˌʌnpəˈveɪd
unpurveyed
ˌʌnpəˈveɪd
unsurveyed
ˌʌnsɜːˈveɪd
upgrade
ʌpˈɡreɪd
vade
veɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EVADE

evacuant
evacuate
evacuation
evacuative
evacuator
evacuee
evadable
evader
evadible
evadingly
evagation
evaginate
evagination
evaluable
evaluate
evaluation
evaluative
evaluator
evanesce
evanescence

WORDS THAT END LIKE EVADE

brigade
call a spade a spade
cascade
couvade
custom-made
digitigrade
fade
grenade
hade
hit parade
home-made
jade
lade
lemonade
make the grade
on the upgrade
promenade
shade
spade
wade

Synonyms and antonyms of evade in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EVADE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «evade» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of evade

Translation of «evade» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EVADE

Find out the translation of evade to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of evade from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «evade» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

逃避
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

evadir
570 millions of speakers

English

evade
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बचना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تهرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уклониться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sonegar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টালা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ne pas payer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengelakkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ausweichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

逃れる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회피하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Evade
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trốn tránh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவிர்க்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टाळणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaçınmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

evadere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uchylać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ухилитися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

se sustrage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποφύγει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontduik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kringgå
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unndra
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of evade

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EVADE»

The term «evade» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.770 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EVADE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «evade» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «evade» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about evade

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10 QUOTES WITH «EVADE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word evade.
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Nina Bawden
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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Seth Berkley
The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it attacks the very cells that are trying to fight it, and it quickly hides itself in your genome.
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Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Arthur Capper
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
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Richard Dawkins
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Lawrence Durrell
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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William Feather
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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Douglas Haig
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
9
Chiang Kai-shek
Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it.
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Loretta Lynch
Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EVADE»

Discover the use of evade in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to evade and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Democracy's Blameless Leaders: From Dresden to Abu Ghraib, ...
In Democracy's Blameless Leaders, Neil Mitchell examines how leaders in democracies manage the blame for the abuse and the killing of civilians, arguing that politicians are likely to react in a self-interested and opportunistic way and ...
Neil James Mitchell, 2012
2
The Outlaw's Bible: How to Evade the System Using ...
Even if you don't do any legal work, these books will help you make sure your lawyer is doing his job! "For the non-angels among us, this 'jailhouse lawyer' manual can be a handy reference and eye-opener. Interesting, tasty, and scary".
E. X. Boozhie, 1988
3
Dismissing Jesus: How We Evade the Way of the Cross
The revival of interest in Christ's kingdom and radical discipleship has produced a wave of discussions, but sometimes those discussions are scattered. This book aims to pull together in one place the core claims of the way of the cross.
Douglas M. Jones, 2013
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Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade ...
By looking at the complex, demanding & compassionate Christianity that Jesus lived & died for, this text examines why the human experience inevitability encompasses both joy & suffering, disappointment & success, heartbreak & achievement.
Dean Turner, 1991
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Modulating Lipsomal Stealth Properties to Evade RES and ...
Existing therapies for the treatment of glioma remain problematic while the incidence of malignant gliomas is growing, leading to an increasing demand for more effective treatment options.
Kathleen Margaret McNeeley, 2008
6
Illicit Tobacco: Various Schemes Are Used to Evade Taxes and ...
ILLICIT. TOBACCO. Various. Schemes. Are. Used. to. Evade. Taxes. and. Fees. What GAO Found Tobacco products face varying levels of taxation in different locations, creating opportunities and incentives for illicit trade. Cigarettes are taxed ...
Loren Yager (au)
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Escape Or Evade
Escape or Evade is a true depiction of the Author Colonel David W. Irvin, Jr. being shot down on France on November 19, 1943.
David W. Irvin, 2002
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Cancer Immunotherapy at the Crossroads: How Tumors Evade ...
The authors review the mechanisms of immune dysfunction and evasion mechanisms in histologically diverse human tumors, focusing on tumor-induced molecular defects in T cells and antigen-presenting cells (dendritic cells and tumors) that may ...
James H. Finke, Ronald M. Bukowski, 2012
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Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: First International ...
The rationale for this choice is to maximise the chances of success of its single proposal, thus this represents the maximally effective evade strategy. Since the sellers are always motivated to accept higher offers (formula 3), making the highest ...
Iyad Rahwan, Pavlos Moraitis, Chris Reed, 2005
10
Countering Hostile Surveillance: Detect, Evade, and ...
This book demonstrates how the intended prey can detect, evade and, if necessary, turn the tables and assume the role of the predator to neutralize this threat. This is not a book on evading garden-variety physical surveillance.
ACM IV Security Services, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EVADE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term evade is used in the context of the following news items.
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Blue Light Stalker and others still evade cops - IOL News
Blue Light Stalker and others still evade cops. July 9 2015 at 02:28pm. By Logan Govender Comment on this story. np ismail-sheik INLSA Ismail Sheik. «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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Ebola cases evade detection - lack of trust in communities | Scoop …
Ebola cases evade detection due to ongoing lack of trust in communities – UN. The origin of the new cluster of Ebola cases is “not yet well ... «Scoop.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
ISIS using encryption to evade FBI - CNNPolitics.com - CNN.com
Washington (CNN) Terror groups such as ISIS are using encrypted programs to prevent law enforcement officials from accessing their ... «CNN, Jul 15»
4
Ransomware Campaign Alters Variants to Evade Detection …
Ransomware Campaign Alters Variants to Evade Detection. by Chris Brook July 8, 2015 , 4:49 pm. A recently uncovered operation has been mutating versions ... «Threatpost, Jul 15»
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Attempt to evade arrest caused crashes with police, civilian vehicles
Facing arrest on an attempted murder charge, Keith Campbell Schell slid behind the wheel of his friend's car and smashed his way through the ... «Regina Leader-Post, Jul 15»
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How Lymphoma Tumor Cells Evade Immune Response - Reliawire
Malignant lymphoma cells can be fended off by our immune system's natural killer cells, which is why they are considered a promising ... «ReliaWire, Jul 15»
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Councils use LGA vehicle to evade borrowing caps
Councils will make the first use of a Local Government Association (LGA) borrowing vehicle in September, which will allow them to evade ... «Inside Housing, Jul 15»
8
Driver Busted After Trying to Evade DUI Checkpoint
Griswold, Conn. (WTNH) – State Troopers say while they were conducting a motor vehicle enforcement spot check for the July Fourth weekend, ... «WTNH Connecticut News, Jul 15»
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Did Bill Clinton help his brother evade taxes?
That's the major insinuation of a new New York Times profile on Roger Clinton, the younger brother to the former president. The article says that Bill may have ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
10
Can Osborne evade the spectres of 2010?
Poorcasts. We all know about the Office for Budget Responsibility's failure at forecasting the economic squalls of the last Parliament – but, ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»

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