Evade vs. Dodge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Evade and Dodge
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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
Dodge
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Evade
To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit
Managed to evade their pursuers.
Went underground in order to evade arrest.
Dodge
To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
Evade
To avoid complying with or fulfilling
Evade the draft.
Evaded any legal responsibility.
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Dodge
To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit
Kept dodging the reporter's questions.
Evade
To fail to make payment of (taxes).
Dodge
To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
Evade
To avoid giving a direct answer to
Talked at length but evaded the interviewer's question.
Dodge
To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly
The child dodged through the crowd.
Evade
To be beyond the memory or understanding of
The point of the article evades me.
Dodge
To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
Evade
To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping something.
Dodge
The act of dodging
Made a dodge to the left.
Evade
To avoid complying with or fulfilling a requirement.
Dodge
A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone
A tax dodge.
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
Dodge
(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
Evade
(transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Dodge
To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
Evade
(intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Dodge
(archaic) To go hither and thither.
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.
Dodge
To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
Evade
To escape; to slip away; - sometimes with from.
Unarmed they mightHave easily, as spirits evaded swiftBy quick contraction or remove.
Dodge
(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
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.
Dodge
To trick somebody.
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
Dodge
An act of dodging.
Evade
Escape, either physically or mentally;
The thief eluded the police
This difficult idea seems to evade her
The event evades explanation
Dodge
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
Evade
Practice evasion;
This man always hesitates and evades
Dodge
(slang) A line of work.
Evade
Use cleverness or deceit to escape or avoid;
The con mane always evades
Dodge
(Australian) Dodgy.
Dodge
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Dodge
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
Dodge
To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Dodge
Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
Dodge
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Dodge
The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries.
Dodge
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
Dodge
A quick evasive movement
Dodge
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Dodge
Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid;
The child dodged the teacher's blow
Dodge
Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course;
The pickpocket dodged through the crowd
Dodge
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
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