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Evaded vs Escaped - What's the difference?

evaded | escaped |

As verbs the difference between evaded and escaped

is that evaded is past tense of evade while escaped is past tense of escape.

As an adjective escaped is

that or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

evaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (evade)

    • 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 ----

    escaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (escape)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
    • People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.