Evade vs Forgo - What's the difference?
evade | forgo |
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 let pass, to leave alone
To do without, to abandon
To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.
As a verb evade
is .As an adjective forgo is
turning, revolving, rotating, whirling, circulating.As a noun forgo is
joint.evade
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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 ----forgo
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Alternative forms
* foregoVerb
- The only way to avoid shame is to forgo acting shamefully.
