Duck

Quick meaning: Duck is a verb meaning (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

Meaning

(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
2. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
3. (intransitive) To bow.
4. (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
5. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
6. (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
7. (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

Example Sentences

[…]In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day[…]

The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.

That was the moment, but Senate Republicans ducked it.

Adams after ducking the Squire tvvice or thrice leaped out of the Tub, […]

Word Forms

• ducks
• ducking
• ducked
• ducke

Synonyms for duck

Depending on context, synonyms include dip, dunk, friend, duckess, duckflesh, duckmeat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include douse, sidestep, parry, dodge, circumvent, elude.

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