Evade and Hide from

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Evade verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

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Hide from and evade are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hide from" instead a verb "Evade".

Nearby Words: evasion, evading, evader

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Evade and hide from are semantically related. You can use "Evade" instead a verb "Hide from".

They evade the cops because Larry is a skilled driver and Deke is his mechanic, and they switch cars and hide from aerial pursuit in a walnut grove.

Source: Shoot The Shaggy Dog / Film
Both ships' sensors were impaired by their proximity to a black hole, and both had the same idea to hide from the other ship inside a particularly strong distortion (the Klingons intended to ambush the Enterprise, while the Enterprise was trying to evade them).

Source: Literature / Star Trek: Federation
In one Dragon Magazine strip, Vaarsuvius chastises two hostile undead for constantly ending their sentences with prepositions... while trying to evade the same opponents with a "Hide from Undead" spell cast by Durkon.

Source: You Make Me Sic

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