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Evade vs Evite - What's the difference?

evade | evite |

As verbs the difference between evade and evite

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 evite is to avoid.

evade

English

Verb

(evad)
  • 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.
    • The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — .
  • To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
    • Evading from perils. — .
    Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — .
  • To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
    • ''The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — .

    Synonyms

    * equivocate * shuffle * dodge

    Derived terms

    * evadible * evasible * evasion * evasive

    See also

    * prevaricate ----

    evite

    English

    Verb

  • (dated) To avoid.
  • * 1678 , ,
    • The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: ...
  • * 1893 , ,
    • "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he. ...
  • * 1941 , Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev and Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology ,
    • Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.

    Derived terms

    * evitable ----