Flee vs Evade - What's the difference?
flee | evade |
(label) To run away; to escape.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
(label) To escape from.
(label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
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.
As verbs the difference between flee and evade
is that flee is to run away; to escape while 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.flee
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“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Anagrams
* * English irregular verbs ----evade
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(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. — .