evade

Other forms of evade

past tense

evaded·

present participle

evading·

third person

evades·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about evade

What does evade mean?

evade means "avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evade?

evade has 2 syllables: e-vade. The stress falls on "vade". In IPA it is /ɪˈveɪd/.

What is another word for evade?

Close synonyms include hedge, fudge, put off, circumvent, parry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is evade a common word?

evade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with evade?

2 words rhyme with evade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.