Evade vs Avert - What's the difference?
evade | avert |
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.
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
To turn aside or away.
To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
* Milton
* Prior
(archaic) To turn away.
* Thomson
(archaic) To turn away.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between evade and avert
is that evade is 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 while avert is to turn aside or away.evade
English
Verb
(evad)- The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — .
- Evading from perils. — .
- Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — .
- ''The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — .
Synonyms
* equivocate * shuffle * dodgeDerived terms
* evadible * evasible * evasion * evasiveSee also
* prevaricate ----avert
English
Verb
(en verb)- To avert the eyes from an object.
- How can the danger be averted ?
- To avert his ire.
- Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
- Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
- When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
Derived terms
* averter * avertressSynonyms
* (to prevent) * See alsoReferences
* "avert" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .