Vocabulary
Evade
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery.
Urdu meaning
بچنا، نکل جانا، ٹال جانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Thailand is seeing smuggling as fuel suppliers find ways to evade government price caps.
Dawn Editorials —
How it ends
— 2026-04-23
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According to reports, FBR has made inroads in the sugar sector, but sectors such as tobacco continue to evade compliance barring the two multinational companies involved.
Dawn Editorials —
The burden of taxes
— 2026-04-18
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When informal competi-tors evade it, the compliant lose market share.
Dawn Editorials —
Tax truths
— 2026-02-20
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Each new recovery reinforces a question Pakistan can no longer afford to evade: how many similar death traps exist across its cities, operating in plain sight until disaster strikes?
Dawn Editorials —
Lethal structures
— 2026-01-23
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In summer, they prefer to attack at night or early morning.IS in Iraq used dust storms to evade drone surveillance and air strikes.
Dawn Editorials —
Weather & terrorism
— 2025-12-12
Synonyms
elude, avoid, dodge, escape (from), stay away from, steer clear of, run away from,
Antonyms
confront, run into
Curator example
“friends helped him to evade capture for a time”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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