Dodge

Verb

 * 1) To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly)
 * He dodged traffic crossing the street.
 * 1)  To avoid; to sidestep
 * The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
 * 1)  To go hither and thither

Noun

 * 1) An act of dodging
 * 2) A trick, evasion or wile

Synonyms for Dodge

 * duck, evade, fudge, skirt
 * elude, escape, avoid, side-step, equivocate, quibble.

Antonyms for Dodge
near, approach, face, meet, encounter, confront.

Derived terms

 * dodger
 * dodgy

Thesaurus
about the bush, action, ad hoc measure, answer, around the bush, art, artful dodge, artifice, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, bag of tricks, ballot-box stuffing, be stuck-up, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, blench, blind, blink, bluff, bob, boggle, bosey, bunco, cardsharping, carefully ignore, catch, cavil, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, chouse, circumvention, cold-shoulder, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, cozenage, craft, cringe, curve, curve-ball, cut a corner, cut corners, cute trick, dart, deceit, deceive, deception, defense mechanism, demarche, design, device, diddle, diddling, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dog it, double-talk, draw back, duck, duck duty, effort, elude, elusion, elusiveness, equivocate, equivocation, escape, evade, evade the issue, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, expedient, fade, fakement, fall back, fallback, fast deal, feint, fence, fetch, ficelle, fight shy of, finesse, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, flinch, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gambit, game, gerrymandering, get out of, getting around, gimmick, goldbrick, goof off, googly, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hang back, hedge, hem and haw, hocus-pocus, hold aloof, hum and haw, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improvisation, intrigue, jesuitism, jib, jink, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keep aloof, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game, machination, makeshift, malinger, maneuver, means, measure, mince the truth, mince words, move, move aside, mystify, neutrality, nitpick, nonintervention, noninvolvement, not pull fair, obscure, palter, parry, pass, pass over, pass over lightly, pick nits, pis aller, plan, plot, ploy, prevaricate, prevarication, prevention, pull away, pull back, pullback, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip, quirk, quodlibet, racket, recoil, red herring, reel back, refraining, resort, resource, retreat, ruse, scam, scamp, scheme, scurvy trick, shake-up, sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, short-circuit, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shun, shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, skirt, skulk, slack, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slide, slide out of, slight, slip, slip out of, slubber over, slur, slur over, sneak out of, soldier, solution, split hairs, stand aloof, start aside, start back, steer clear of, step, step aside, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, subterfuge, swerve, swindle, tactic, temporary expedient, tergiversate, the runaround, touch upon, touch upon lightly, trick, trickery, trump, turn aside, twist and turn, veer, waffle, ward off, weasel, weasel out, weave, welsh, wheeze, wile, wily device, wince, working hypothesis, working proposition, zigzag

Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder

Pronunciation




Verb

 * Bulgarian: избягвам, отбягвам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 躲避, 躲開, 躲开
 * Czech: uhnout
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,


 * German:
 * Japanese: よける, 身をかわす
 * Portuguese: esquivar
 * Russian: увёртываться, увернуться , изворачиваться , извернуться
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: избягвам
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Russian: увиливать, увильнуть , избегать , избежать , уклоняться , уклониться
 * Spanish: ,


 * : esquiver


 * : esquivar