dodging

Speech parts

1. dodging - Noun

2. dodging - Verb

Meaning

of Dodge

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dodge escape scheme avoidance evasion shunning turning away parry portage bolt duck dart shifty avoid hiding
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Antonyms

being acting hunting suffering bearing attending
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Hypernyms

rejection neglect negligence falsehood falsity carelessness

Hyponyms

escape aversion circumvention averting shirking soldiering

Related terms

fare-dodging soap-dodging

Phrases with the word

dodging car dodging a bullet

Anagrams

godding

Examples

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance. John Sedgwick

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. Bruce Springsteen

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. Gene Tunney

Did it ever occur to you that everybody is more or less afraid of nearly everything, and that courage isn't a damn thing but a habit of not dodging things because you're afraid of them? Dashiell Hammett

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. T. S. Eliot

Close letter words and terms

dodgily Dodgin dodginess dodging a bullet dodging car Dodgshon