Dodge
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English
Verb
Dodge (third-person singular simple present Dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)
- To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly)
- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
- (archaic) To go hither and thither
Noun
Dodge (plural Dodges)Synonyms for Dodge
Antonyms for Dodge
near, approach, face, meet, encounter, confront.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
about the bush, action, ad hoc measure, answer, around the bush, art, artful dodge, artifice, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, bag of tricks, ballot-box stuffing, be stuck-up, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, blench, blind, blink, bluff, bob, boggle, bosey, bunco, cardsharping, carefully ignore, catch, cavil, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, chouse, circumvention, cold-shoulder, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, cozenage, craft, cringe, curve, curve-ball, cut a corner, cut corners, cute trick, dart, deceit, deceive, deception, defense mechanism, demarche, design, device, diddle, diddling, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dog it, double-talk, draw back, duck, duck duty, effort, elude, elusion, elusiveness, equivocate, equivocation, escape, evade, evade the issue, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, expedient, fade, fakement, fall back, fallback, fast deal, feint, fence, fetch, ficelle, fight shy of, finesse, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, flinch, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gambit, game, gerrymandering, get out of, getting around, gimmick, goldbrick, goof off, googly, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hang back, hedge, hem and haw, hocus-pocus, hold aloof, hum and haw, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improvisation, intrigue, jesuitism, jib, jink, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keep aloof, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game, machination, makeshift, malinger, maneuver, means, measure, mince the truth, mince words, move, move aside, mystify, neutrality, nitpick, nonintervention, noninvolvement, not pull fair, obscure, palter, parry, pass, pass over, pass over lightly, pick nits, pis aller, plan, plot, ploy, prevaricate, prevarication, prevention, pull away, pull back, pullback, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip, quirk, quodlibet, racket, recoil, red herring, reel back, refraining, resort, resource, retreat, ruse, scam, scamp, scheme, scurvy trick, shake-up, sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, short-circuit, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shun, shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, skirt, skulk, slack, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slide, slide out of, slight, slip, slip out of, slubber over, slur, slur over, sneak out of, soldier, solution, split hairs, stand aloof, start aside, start back, steer clear of, step, step aside, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, subterfuge, swerve, swindle, tactic, temporary expedient, tergiversate, the runaround, touch upon, touch upon lightly, trick, trickery, trump, turn aside, twist and turn, veer, waffle, ward off, weasel, weasel out, weave, welsh, wheeze, wile, wily device, wince, working hypothesis, working proposition, zigzag
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒdʒ
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