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dodge

English

  1. 🔊 a quick evasive movement
  2. 🔊 a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
  3. 🔊 an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
    “his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track”
  4. 🔊 make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
    “The child dodged the teacher's blow”
  5. 🔊 move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course
    “the pickpocket dodged through the crowd”
  6. 🔊 avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
    “He dodged the issue”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 defraudar to dodge
  2. 🔊 quiebro dodge, swerve
  3. 🔊 regate dodge, swerve
  4. 🔊 cuartear to dodge, swerve
  5. 🔊 esquivar to dodge, to duck, to evade

Similar words

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