Dodge

Quick meaning: Dodge is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
2. (transitive) To elude.
3. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
4. (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
5. An act of dodging.
6. (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
7. (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.

Example Sentences

He dodged traffic crossing the street.

The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.

"I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would."

A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

Word Forms

• dodges
• dodging
• dodged

Synonyms for dodge

Depending on context, synonyms include duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun, elude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evade, elude, circumvent, sidestep, put off, duck.

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