Synonyms of evades

evades

verb

present tense third-person singular of evade

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery

people who use every loophole in the law to evade paying taxes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avoids
• escapes
• eludes
• shuns
• dodges
• eschews
• deflects
• prevents
• shakes
• eliminates
• shirks
• shuffles (out of)
• circumvents
• finesses
• precludes
• thwarts
• steers clear of
• obviates
• misses
• ducks
• excludes
• scapes
• fights shy of
• averts
• keeps clear of
• gets around
• weasels (out of)
• stays clear of
• parries
• diverts
• outwits
• debars
• bypasses
• excepts
• wards (off)
• rules out
• bans
• frustrates
• outsmarts
• foils
• overreaches
• outfoxes
• bars
• skirts
• foxes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• seeks
• accepts
• pursues
• embraces
• welcomes
• catches
• incurs
• courts
• contracts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of evades

This skin-crawling faux-documentary concerns a prolific New York serial killer who evades capture despite recording his brazen crimes. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

However, Noussair Mazraoui evades Casemiro’s challenge far too easily before Bilal El Khannouss releases Achraf Hakimi on the far side. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026

If the armed forces are the instrument through which the president evades the Constitution, then the leaders of those armed forces must answer for their role. — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

Panthalassa evades these regional regulatory and environmental obstacles by deploying autonomous computing nodes directly into deep water. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026

And though bound together as one 10-county region, the Hudson Valley actively evades a uniform identity. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026

In March, the French navy seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean that Macron said belonged ‌to Russia’s shadow fleet, which comprises several hundred tankers through which Russia evades sanctions. — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 1 June 2026

At one point, Griffin appears to lunge at Manetta, who evades him by ducking behind a column on the platform. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026

Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026