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evite

evite verb: to avoid.

Verb

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)

  1. (Early, Modern, Scotland, archaic, transitive) To avoid.
    • The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
    • ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

evite meaning in Tamil

evite in Tamil

விலக்கு

Examples of evite in a sentence

  • She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
  • "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
  • Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology:

Forms of evite

third-person singular presentevites
present participleeviting
past participleevited
pastevited

Origin of evite

Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).

Words formed from evite

Questions about evite

What does evite mean?
Evite means to avoid.
What is evite in Tamil?
Evite in Tamil is விலக்கு. See Evite meaning in Tamil.
How do you use evite in a sentence?
She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.
What part of speech is evite?
Evite is a verb.
What is the past tense of evite?
The past tense of evite is evited.

Words near evite in the dictionary

  1. evitation
  2. evitations
  3. evitative
  4. evitative case
  5. evitative cases
  6. evite
  7. evited
  8. eviternal
  9. eviternally
  10. eviternity
  11. evites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evite (page history and authors); evite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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