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Dodge   /dɑdʒ/   Listen
Dodge

verb
(past & past part. dodged; pres. part. dodging)
1.
Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid.
2.
Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course.
3.
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).  Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt.  "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"
noun
1.
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.  Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem.
2.
A quick evasive movement.
3.
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.  Synonyms: dodging, scheme.



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"Dodge" Quotes from Famous Books



... same yard. She was full of fight. Knowing how repulsive she was to me, she was often the first to open hostilities, mocking my way of speaking, or sticking out her tongue at me. Or else she would press her freckled cheek against my lips and then dodge back, shouting, gloatingly: "He has kissed a girl! He has kissed a girl! Sinner! Shame! ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... father. If one of them had dared I wonder whether the blood would have liquefied. Do you remember, in the 'Nibelungenlied,' that Hagen is forced to prove his innocence by touching Siegfried's corpse—and fails? That is the point—he fails. Our own Shakespeare knew the dodge. When Henry VI was being borne to Chertsey in an open coffin, the Lady Anne made ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... he'll forget that I am around and give me a chance to get away," he reasoned. "Guess I had better try that dodge on him." ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton
... little birds who have a reputation for carrying inconvenient pieces of information, that on several evenings, just at dusk, a girl who wore a boarder's hat had been seen to leave the garden and hurry up the road, returning about five minutes later to dodge with great caution inside the gate. Such a proceeding was manifestly irregular and highly improper. Miss Poppleton, at first indignant at the very idea that one of her pupils could be guilty of so great an indiscretion, ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... many prospectors, depending on their black-boys almost entirely, wander from one range of hills to another, dodge here and there for water, keep no count or reckoning, and only return by the help of their guide when the "tucker-bags" are empty; others make a practice of standing two sticks in the ground on ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie


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