 dodge |
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| 1. | [ verb ] make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | |
| Examples: | "The child dodged the teacher's blow" |
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| Related terms: | move | |
| 2. | [ noun ] an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | |
| Synonyms: | stratagem contrivance | |
| Examples: | "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
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| Related terms: | scheme plant pump-and-dump_scheme wangle | |
| 3. | [ verb ] avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | |
| Synonyms: | sidestep evade skirt hedge duck circumvent put_off elude parry fudge | |
| Examples: | "He dodged the issue" "she skirted the problem" "They tend to evade their responsibilities" "he evaded the questions skillfully" |
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| Related terms: | avoid quibble evasion circumvention equivocator hedge | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a quick evasive movement | |
| Related terms: | evasion | |
| 5. | [ verb ] move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | |
| Examples: | "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd" |
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| Related terms: | move | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1524 | |
| 7. | [ noun ] a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | |
| Synonyms: | scheme dodging | |
| Related terms: | falsehood hedge | |
| Similar spelling: |
dotage Douds dodgy Dodds Doetsch |
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