dodge

Speech parts

1. dodge - Noun

2. dodge - Adjective

3. dodge - Verb

4. Dodge - Proper noun

Meaning

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

duck evade skirt parry shun fudge hedge circumvent elude sidestep avoid escape shift scheme trick
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Antonyms

bight hawking have take see attack
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Hypernyms

move avoid scheme evasion falsehood falsity

Hyponyms

plant quibble beg wangle pump-and-dump scheme wangling

Phrases with the word

get out of Dodge dodge the issue dodge the question dodge in and out so as to dodge dodge payment

Derivatives

dodged dodging

Anagrams

degod

Examples

He dodged the issue Source: Internet

she skirted the problem Source: Internet

They tend to evade their responsibilities Source: Internet

he evaded the questions skillfully Source: Internet

his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track Source: Internet

The child dodged the teacher's blow Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dodemorph dodgast dodgasted dodge a bullet dodge a question dodge away