vad-, vas-

Tending to invade the walls of blood vessels.

1. Inclined to getting away or slipping away: Little Timmy tried to be evadable when his mother was looking for him in his room!
2. Prone to escaping by deceit or cleverness: The culprit was always evadable when the police tried to catch him because he always eluded and dodged them!
3. Disposed to avoiding giving direct answers: When Mrs. Timmons asked her son why he had been out so late, he usually gave her evadable explanations which were always quite vague.

1. To escape or to manage not to do something, or to manage to stop something from happening, usually by ingenuity or guile.
2. To avoid, or to shun, doing something unpleasant, especially something that is a moral or legal obligation.
3. To avoid, or to stay clear of, dealing with or responding directly to something.
4. To avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing anything.
5. To be difficult or impossible for someone to find, obtain, or achieve: "Being successful in his lexicographic work has always evaded him."

An act of avoiding something unpleasant or to manage not to do anything which should be done: Al can't continue with his evasion of taking the final exam if he wants to pass the course in chemistry.

When Sara leaned forward to kiss Jerome goodbye, after breaking up with him to be with another person, he made an evasion by pretending to sneeze.

1. Susceptible of being entered in a hostel or forceful way: If a country doesn't protect itself at all, it could become an invadable nation for a possible violent attack.
2. Open to being crowded into: The market place in the center of the town was certainly a favorite invadable area where masses of people pushed and pressed to get to their preferred stalls to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.
3. Subject to being infested and spreading through with dangerous effects: When a person doesn't wear a face mask in a store at the present time, the chances of having the invadable coronavirus enter his or her body is greater than when protecting oneself and others.
4. Capable of being infringed or violated upon: When Violet wasn't home, her brother knew that her room was invadable, so he went in and looked through her drawers for her diary!!

Similar to podosomes; however, most researchers define podosomes as more dynamic than invadopodia and smaller; one to two micrometers in diameter compared to eight to ten micrometers.

Some researchers have suggested that podosomes form first and then mature into invadopodia, but no consesus exists among cell biologists, yet.

Feetlike structures aid the necessary migrations of immune and other cells, but they also include the deadly wanderings of cancer cells because they exploit the same ambulatory skills to spread.

To spread through or to be in every part of something or of people: Cruel wars have pervaded throughout centuries of history.

The feeling of doom pervaded the military when they realized that their enemy was attacking with such superior forces.