Thesaurus: dodge

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1. v. i. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
2. v. i. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
3. v. t. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
4. v. t. Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
5. v. t. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
6. 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.
7. n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
8. n. a quick evasive movement
9. n. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
10. v. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
11. v. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
12. v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)