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Evade vs. Avoid — What's the Difference?

Evade vs. Avoid — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Evade and Avoid

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Evade

Escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery
Friends helped him to evade capture for a time

Avoid

To stay clear of; go around or away from
Swerve to avoid a pothole.

Evade

To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit
Managed to evade their pursuers.
Went underground in order to evade arrest.

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 avoid complying with or fulfilling
Evade the draft.
Evaded any legal responsibility.
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Avoid

To prevent from happening
You can avoid illness with exercise and a balanced diet.

Evade

To fail to make payment of (taxes).

Avoid

To refrain from using, engaging in, or partaking of
Avoid red meat.
Avoid risky behavior.

Evade

To avoid giving a direct answer to
Talked at length but evaded the interviewer's question.

Avoid

To refrain from (doing something)
It was all we could do to avoid laughing at the remark.

Evade

To be beyond the memory or understanding of
The point of the article evades me.

Avoid

(Law) To annul or make void; invalidate.

Evade

To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping something.

Avoid

(Obsolete) To void or expel.

Evade

To avoid complying with or fulfilling a requirement.

Avoid

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun

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 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.

Evade

(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.

Avoid

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
I try to avoid the company of gamblers.

Evade

(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Avoid

To try not to do something or to have something happen

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 make empty; to clear.

Evade

To escape; to slip away; - sometimes with from.
Unarmed they mightHave easily, as spirits evaded swiftBy quick contraction or remove.

Avoid

To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

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 defeat or evade; to invalidate.

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 emit or throw out; to void.

Evade

Escape, either physically or mentally;
The thief eluded the police
This difficult idea seems to evade her
The event evades explanation

Avoid

To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

Evade

Practice evasion;
This man always hesitates and evades

Avoid

To get rid of.

Evade

Use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid;
The con mane always evades

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

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