What's the difference between abscond and evade?

Abscond


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
  • (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
  • (v. t.) To hide; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (2) Eleanor Hawkins' father relieved after Malaysian court frees tourist Read more The judge, Dean Wayne Daly, said: “This court accepted the plea of guilty as mitigation.” He also noted the remorse of the tourists, and accepted that although Hawkins was arrested at an airport “there was nothing to show Eleanor was absconding the law”.
  • (3) It says the very nature of the orders carries an inherent risk that the terror suspect will abscond, but that such incidents should not be allowed to undermine the principle that such restrictions should be individually tailored to each suspect.
  • (4) During prime minister’s questions, Cameron said: “We’re making progress, the buck does stop with me, but I wouldn’t mind a bit of cross-party support for the actions we need to take.” The NAO report, released Monday, revealed that one in six foreign offenders living in the community had absconded.
  • (5) I felt so alone.” But if Marina left, under the UAE’s kafala system, she would become an absconding worker.
  • (6) Mazzaro has been on the run for three months and the San Lorenzo captain is suspected of keeping in touch with him throughout that time and helping him abscond.
  • (7) "While the relocation power was used in control orders nobody absconded and the courts consistently upheld them as proportionate and lawful.
  • (8) It was triggered by a man who absconded from quarantine in Freetown, in order to visit his mother at the end of Ramadan.
  • (9) Polanski absconded before the sentencing, however, and has lived in France ever since.
  • (10) In the aftermath of his disappearance, speculation was rife that Xiros, the son of a fundamentalist Orthodox priest, had decided to abscond because he had fallen in love with a woman he met on a previous release from prison.
  • (11) The Guardian comments that people will be re-detained because of the risk of absconding.
  • (12) Judge Alistair McCreath said: "When a defendant makes a considered decision to abscond as you did he or she has shown a contemptuous disregard for that important obligation and that in itself matters."
  • (13) In the course of treatment three absconded and one died from acute pneumonia with respiratory and heart failure.
  • (14) The judge had concluded that because of the "serious" nature of the allegations against Assange, his "comparatively weak community ties" in the UK, and the fact it was believed he had the financial means and the ability to abscond, there was a substantial risk he would fail to surrender to the courts.
  • (15) It is they, overwhelmingly, who absconded to the yes camp; their elders who remained firmly no.
  • (16) Technically, if they absconded [without] the proper process of authorisation in leaving the States, does the US recognise that they’re here?
  • (17) Despite the implicit concession, the immigration minister continued to contend it was Labor’s fault for depriving the customs system of resources, and for not adjusting the security screening settings – even though Sharrouf absconded in December 2013, when the Coalition was in government.
  • (18) The judge, Howard Riddle, said Rancadore should be allowed to return home on police bail on the condition that he lives and sleeps at his address in Uxbridge, reports to the local police station twice daily, wears an electronic tag and puts up £50,000 security in case he absconds.
  • (19) "The home secretary also needs to provide information about the decisions made over Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed's Tpim [terrorism prevention and investigation measures order], how he was able to abscond and what the risks to the public are."
  • (20) The number of children absconding from a Salvation Army home for boys in Queensland reached unprecedented levels at a time a child prostitution ring was believed to be operating in the area, an inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.

Evade


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
  • (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Trypanosoma brucei) has the ability to express on its cell surface a repertoire of variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) and in so doing, evades the immune response of the host (antigenic variation).
  • (3) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (4) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
  • (5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
  • (6) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (7) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
  • (8) The model also lends itself to studies of the immunologic interrelationships between innate and acquired resistance to infection with schistosomes, as well as the mechanisms by which these parasites evade the host immune response.
  • (9) Here's Messi playing in Adriano, but his cross evades Villa in the middle.
  • (10) According to unedited training videos seen by Sky News captured from an Isis trainer by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army, an research and development team may have produced fully working remote-controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, which they have fitted with mannequins rigged to give off heat to suggest they are human and so to evade bomb-scanning machines.
  • (11) As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest... and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.” Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night.
  • (12) The authors found, almost as an aside to their central examination of tax evasion, that the occupations represented in parliament "are very much those that evade tax, even beyond lawyers".
  • (13) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
  • (14) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
  • (15) Two ways to alter the perception that health professionals evade or ignore the problem are discussed.
  • (16) But the next real opportunity would fall to USA , Jozy Altidore running onto an Fabian Johnson cross that had evaded its intended target, Michael Bradley, in the middle of the box.
  • (17) Her worries were confirmed hours later, when Manuel Delgado, another lawyer emerged from the courtroom during a recess and declared "the princess came very prepared to evade any questions".
  • (18) The present study was performed to determine whether the propensity of the type b organism to cause invasive infections is due to a unique ability to evade complement-mediated host defenses.
  • (19) The prosecution in the trial had alleged that the two men had evaded tax on payments totalling £189,000 that were made by Mandaric into Redknapp's offshore bank account while the two men were at Portsmouth football club.
  • (20) could be due to a Leishmania-induced mechanism by means of which this organism may evade the immune response.