dodge vs evade

dodge

verb
  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

evade

verb
  • To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. 

  • To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from 

  • To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. 

How often have the words dodge and evade occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )