Dictionary Entry
dodge
dodge is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
- 2intransitive verb
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
- 3transitive verb
To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
- 4transitive verb
Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
- 5transitive verb
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
a quick evasive movement
- 8noun
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
"his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
Synonyms
- 9noun
a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- 10verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"
"she skirted the problem"
- 11verb
make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
"The child dodged the teacher's blow"
- 12verb
move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
"the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"
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