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/icons/point.icon ESCAPE, AVOID, EVADE, ELUDE, SHUN, ESCHEW mean to get away or keep away from something.
ESCAPE stresses the fact of getting away or being passed by not necessarily through effort or by conscious intent.
e.g. nothing escapes her sharp eyes
AVOID stresses forethought and caution in keeping clear of danger or difficulty.
e.g. try to avoid past errors
EVADE implies adroitness, ingenuity, or lack of scruple in escaping or avoiding.
e.g. evaded the question by changing the subject
ELUDE implies a slippery or baffling quality in the person or thing that escapes.
e.g. what she sees in him eludes me
SHUN often implies an avoiding as a matter of habitual practice or policy and may imply repugnance or abhorrence.
e.g. you have shunned your responsibilities
ESCHEW implies an avoiding or abstaining from as unwise or distasteful.
e.g. a playwright who eschews melodrama
verb
escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery:
〈追跡など〉から(うまく)逃げる, 逃れる
e.g. friends helped him to evade capture for a time
e.g. he tried to kiss her, but she evaded him.
(of an abstract thing) elude (someone):
｟文｠ 〈幸運･成功などが〉〈人〉に訪れない
e.g. sleep still evaded her.
avoid giving a direct answer to (a question):
〈話題･質問など〉を避ける, かわす; 〖～ doing〗 …することを避ける, 回避する
e.g. he denied evading the question.
avoid dealing with or accepting; contrive not to do (something morally or legally required):
〈義務･責任など〉を逃れる; 〈法など〉をかいくぐる
e.g. difficulties to be faced and not evaded.
escape paying (tax or duty), especially by illegitimate presentation of one's finances.
defeat the intention of (a law or rule), especially while complying with its letter.
DERIVATIVES
evadable |əˈvādəb(ə)l| adjective
evader noun
ORIGIN
late 15th century: from French évader, from Latin evadere from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vadere ‘go’.