dodge

躲避 avoid

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
dodge (noun)
1.
an act of evading by sudden bodily movement
2.
a) an artful device to evade, deceive, or trick
b) - expedient
dodge (verb)
intransitive verb
1.
a) to move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course - dodged through the crowd
b) to make a sudden movement in a new direction (as to evade a blow) - dodged behind the door
2.
transitive verb
to evade a responsibility or duty especially by trickery or deceit
1.
a) to evade by a sudden or repeated shift of position - dodge tacklers
b) to avoid an encounter with - celebrities dodging the media
2.
to evade (as a duty) usually indirectly or by trickery - dodged the draft by leaving the country dodged questions
Dodge (biographical name)
Mary Elizabeth 1831–1905 née Am. author - Mapes bixdod02.wav ˈmāps
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
dodge (noun)
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
SYNONYMS:
artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile
RELATED WORDS:
bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery ( skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle; blind, front, smoke screen
dodge (verb)
1.
to move suddenly aside or to and fro
SYNONYMS:
duck, jink, sidestep, slalom, weave, zigzag
RELATED WORDS:
avoid, elude, escape, evade, parry, shirk, skirt; deflect, turn; slide, slip
dodge (verb)
2.
to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness
SYNONYMS:
beat, bypass, dodge, get around, shortcut, sidestep, skirt
RELATED WORDS:
avoid, duck, elude, end-run, escape, eschew, evade, outflank, shake, shirk, shun; disobey, disregard, flout, ignore; avert, deflect, divert, obviate, parry, prevent, ward (off)
NEAR ANTONYMS:
accede (to), acquiesce (to), assent (to); accept, court, embrace, pursue, seek, welcome; catch, contract, incur
comply (with), follow, keep, obey, observe
dodge (verb)
3.
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
SYNONYMS:
avoid, dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, finesse, get around, scape, shake, shirk, shuffle (out of), shun, weasel (out of)
RELATED WORDS:
miss; avert, deflect, divert, obviate, parry, prevent, ward (off); ban, bar, debar, eliminate, except, exclude, preclude, rule out; bypass, circumvent, skirt; foil, fox, frustrate, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach, thwart
NEAR ANTONYMS:
accept, court, embrace, pursue, seek, welcome; catch, contract, incur
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