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

1. intransitive verb. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
2. intransitive verb. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
3. transitive verb. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
4. transitive verb. Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
5. transitive verb. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
6. noun. 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. noun. a quick evasive movement
8. noun. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

   "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

   Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem

9. noun. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

   Synonyms: dodging, scheme

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

    "He dodged the issue"

    "she skirted the problem"

    Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

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

    "The child dodged the teacher's blow"

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

    "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

Synonyms

contrivance, stratagem, dodging, scheme, circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

Common word forms

dodged, dodger, dodges, dodging, dodgeful

Words from these letters

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