| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
| evacuation | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, voidance |
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| (noun) the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection | - |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| evacuee | (noun) a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place | - |
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| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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| evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| evaporable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| evaporated | (adjective) drawn off in the form of vapor | - |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
| (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| eve | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: even, evening, eventide |
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| (noun) the day before | - |
| (noun) the period immediately before something | - |
| even | (adjective) being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) | - |
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| (adjective) divisible by two | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced | Synonyms: fifty-fifty |
| (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: level, tied |
| (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, evening, eventide |
| (adverb) used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected | - |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: still, yet |
| (adverb) in spite of; notwithstanding | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent | - |
| (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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| evenhandedly | (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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| evenly | (adverb) in a level and regular way | - |
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| (adverb) in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way | Synonyms: equally |
| evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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| (noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
| (noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| eventually | (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: finally |
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| eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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| ever | (adverb) at all times; all the time and on every occasion | Synonyms: always, e'er |
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| (adverb) at any time | Synonyms: of all time |
| (adverb) (intensifier for adjectives) very | Synonyms: ever so |
| evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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| (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
| everlastingly | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, evermore, forever |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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| (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
| eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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| (noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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| evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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| (verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
| eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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| (noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
| evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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| (noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
| (noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
| evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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| evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
| evidential | (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidentiary |
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| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evidently | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
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| evil | (adjective) morally bad or wrong | - |
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| (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign |
| (adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: vicious |
| (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
| (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evilness |
| evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| evilly | (adverb) in a wicked evil manner | Synonyms: wickedly |
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| evilness | (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evil |
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| evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
| (verb) remove the contents of | - |
| (verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
| (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| evitable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, avoidable |
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| evocation | (noun) imaginative re-creation | - |
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| (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, induction |
| (noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: summoning |
| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| evoked | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: elicited |
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| evolution | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny |
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| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: development |
| evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |