Synonyms for dodge
dɒdʒdodge

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1. dodgeverb

   derived from a diminutive of Roger. (Typically found in the United States.)

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

   Synonyms:
   duck, skirt, fudge, evade

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1. dodge

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

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1. contrivance, stratagem, dodgenoun

   an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

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

   Synonyms:
   gambit, stratagem, devisal, convenience, scheme, ploy, gismo, widget, dodging, contrivance, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, gizmo

2. dodgenoun

   a quick evasive movement

   Synonyms:
   scheme, contrivance, dodging, stratagem

3. dodge, dodging, schemeverb

   a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, avoidance, strategy, scheme, contrivance, system, dodging, escape, outline, evasion, shunning, schema, turning away

4. dodgeverb

   make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

   "The child dodged the teacher's blow"

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

5. dodgeverb

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

   "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

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

6. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

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

   "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

   Synonyms:
   put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

Matched Categories

1. • Evasion
   • Move

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. dodgeverb

   Synonyms:
   start aside, shift place suddenly

2. dodgeverb

   Synonyms:
   shuffle, equivocate, quibble, prevaricate, use artifice, play fast and loose, be evasive

3. dodgeverb

   Synonyms:
   evade (by starting aside)

4. dodgenoun

   Synonyms:
   starting aside

5. dodgenoun

   Synonyms:
   evasion, artifice, trick, subterfuge, quibble, cavil

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1. dodgenoun

   Synonyms:
   prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge, stratagem, evasion, parry, device

2. dodgeverb

   Synonyms:
   duck, evade, parry, prevaricate, equivocate, shift, evade, quibble, parry

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1. List of paraphrases for "dodge":

   dogg, circumvent, evade

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1. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:

   Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

2. Roy Gutterman:

   I can see this popping up more and more, it would be reasonable to see similar suits popping up with the events in Charlottesville. Left-wing protesters clash with conservatives over the scheduled appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos. ( The Associated Press) Last August, a rally in opposition to the removal of a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the campus of the University of Virginia turned violent as white supremacists and neo-Nazis clashed with counterprotestors. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when James Alex Fields Jr. drove a 2010 Dodge Challenger into a crowd on a pedestrian mall. Roy Gutterman predicted the success of any future lawsuit depends on the motives of the plaintiffs, and how the court rules.

3. Manfred Weber:

   It’s unacceptable that the Russian leadership is trying to make short work of the burgeoning protests by arresting thousands of demonstrators, the EU foreign ministers are not allowed to dodge this once again and stop at general appeals.

4. Rodney Reese:

   Just a simple encounter. A simple encounter. That’s why I tried to dodge it, so I could make it home, I don’t know.

5. Jen Jordan:

   I was kind of like, this can't be serious, because everything they're saying is so ridiculous, now, in retrospect, we really did dodge a bullet in terms of our democracy, because these folks were not playing.