Crossword-Solution: EVADE 5 letters, 232 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Evade	v. t.	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.
Evade	v. t.	To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Evade	v. t.	To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
EVADE	anagram	DEAVE, EAVED

We have 232 clues for the answer “EVADE”

Clue	Answers
Artfully escape	1 answer
Avert or elude	1 answer
Avoid answering directly	1 answer
Avoid by dexterity.	1 answer
Avoid carefully.	1 answer
Avoid the clutches of	1 answer
Avoid via a spin move, perhaps	1 answer
Be devious	1 answer
Circumvent by trickery.	1 answer
Cleverly dodge	1 answer
Dance around, as an issue	1 answer
Deftly escape from	1 answer
Do some dodging	1 answer
Do some shuffling	1 answer
Dodge the question	1 answer
Dodge, as a green shell in Mario Kart	1 answer
Dodge, as detection	1 answer
Dodge, as taxes	1 answer
Dodge, as the press	1 answer
Don't answer directly	1 answer
Don't be nabbed by	1 answer
Don't get caught by	1 answer
Duck out from under	1 answer
Duck out of	1 answer
Duck, as the Feds	1 answer
Elude cleverly	1 answer
Elude detection from	1 answer
Elude skillfully	1 answer
Escape by artifice	1 answer
Escape or avoid	1 answer
Escape successfully	1 answer
Escape, as arrest	1 answer
Escape, as capture	1 answer
Escape, as detection	1 answer
Escape, avoid	1 answer
Execute a duck?	1 answer
Fail to file, as taxes	1 answer
Fail to pay taxes due	1 answer
Fail to pay, as taxes	1 answer
Find a loophole	1 answer
Foil a would-be catcher	1 answer
Foil pursuers	1 answer
Foil von Richthofen	1 answer
Get away from, as pursuers	1 answer
Get clear of	1 answer
Get out of doing	1 answer
Incur the wrath of the IRS	1 answer
Keep out of the way of.	1 answer
Lose successfully	1 answer
Manage not to encounter	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with EVADE (5)

Every afternoon before the gates closed and the market carts went out in procession by the various barricades, some fool of an aristo endeavoured to evade the clutches of the Committee of Public Safety.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

This he afterwards contrived to evade by a pretended hurry of business; La Rue readily conceiving he never meant to fulfil his promise, determined to change her battery, and attack the heart of Colonel Crayton.

Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson 2006

Women are themselves necessities; but they are not odious ones!” And Bernard added, in a moment, “One could n’t evade them, if they were!” “I object to being called a necessity,” said Angela Vivian.

Confidence Henry James 2006

The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.

The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Even if it was established that they had stolen a negro, before he was murdered, they were always prepared to evade punishment; for they concealed the negro who had run away, until he was advertised, and a reward offered to any man who would catch him.

Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with EVADE (3)

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

T. S. Eliot

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

Ayn Rand

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

Frank Herbert Children of Dune

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 870 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).