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v. To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.

v. To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit: kept dodging the reporter's questions.

v. To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.

verb-intransitive. To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly: The child dodged through the crowd.

verb-intransitive. To practice trickery or cunning; prevaricate.

n. The act of dodging.

n. An ingenious expedient intended to evade or trick. See Synonyms at wile.

v. To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly).

v. To avoid; to sidestep.

v. To go hither and thither.

v. To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn.

n. An act of dodging

n. A trick, evasion or wile

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

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

v. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside.

v. Fig.: To evade by craft

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

n. 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.

To start suddenly aside; shift place by a sudden start, as to evade a blow or escape observation.

To shift about; move cautiously, as in avoiding discovery, or in following and watching another's movements: as, he dodged along byways and hedges; the Indians dodged from tree to tree.

To play tricks; be evasive; play fast and loose; raise expectations and disappoint them; quibble.

To jog; walk in a slow, listless, or clumsy manner.

To evade by a sudden shift of place, or by trick or device; escape by starting aside, or by baffling or roundabout movements: as, to dodge a blow; to dodge a pursuer or a creditor; to dodge a perplexing question.

To play fast and loose with; baffle by shifts and pretexts; trick.

n. A shifty or ingenious trick; an artifice; an evasion.

In change-ringing, to change the place or order of (a bell) in the series used.

n. Of a bell in change-ringing, a change in its place or order in the series used.

v. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

n. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

n. a quick evasive movement

v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

v. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

"It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic."

dodged    dodges    dodging   

move    untruth    falsehood    falsity    evasion   

dodgy    dodger   

quibble    artifice    duck    jump    jerk    twitch    evasion    deceit    device    expedient   

Hodge    Lodge    dislodge    lodge    podge    raj    rodge   

silverado    ruse    dodger    artlessness    sleight    maneuvering    manoeuvring    schemer    involutions    evasion