dodging

Plural: dodgings

Noun

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
• The act of dodging; a dodge.

Verb

Verb Forms: dodge, dodged, dodging, dodges

• Avoiding something with a sudden quick movement.
• make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
• move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• present participle and gerund of dodge

Examples

• She was expertly DODGING her opponent’s attempts to block her scoring lanes.

Synonyms

avoidance, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, evasion, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, scheme, shunning, sidestep, skirt, turning away

Related Words

fare-dodging, soap-dodging

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