dodge

See also: Dodge

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder

Pronunciation

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Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodg, present participle ing, simple past and past participle dodged)

1. To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

2. (deprecated template usage) (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

   The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
3. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (deprecated template usage) (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare (deprecated template usage) burn).
5. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
   • Coleridge

     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.

Synonyms

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt

Derived terms

• dodge a bullet
• dodger
• dodgy

Translations

to avoid by moving out of the way

• Bulgarian: избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam), отбягвам (bg) (otbjagvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躲避 (zh) (duǒbì), 躲開／躲开 (zh) (duǒkai), 躲开 (duǒkai)

• Czech: uhnout
• Dutch: ontwijken (nl)
• Finnish: väistää (fi)
• French: éviter (fr), contourner (fr), esquiver (fr)
• German: ausweichen (de)
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• Japanese: よける (yokeru), 身をかわす (mi-o kawasu)
• Portuguese: (Brazil) esquivar
• Russian: увёртываться impf (uvjórtyvat'sja), увернуться (ru) pf (uvernút'sja), изворачиваться (ru) impf (izvoráčivat’sja), извернуться (ru) pf (izvernút’sja)
• Slovak: uhnúť sa, vyhýbať sa
• Spanish: evadir, esquivar (es)
• Walloon: houwer (wa)

to avoid; to sidestep

• Bulgarian: избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam)
• Czech: vyhnout se pf, vyhýbat se impf
• Dutch: ontwijken (nl)
• Finnish: vältellä
• French: esquiver (fr)
• German: ausweichen (de)
• Russian: увиливать (ru) impf (uvílivat'), увильнуть (ru) pf (uvil'nút'), избегать (ru) impf (izbegát'), избежать (ru) pf (izbežát'), уклоняться (ru) impf (uklonját'sja), уклониться (ru) pf (uklonít'sja)
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• Slovak: uhýbať
• Spanish: evadir, esquivar (es)
• Walloon: houwer (wa)

to go hither and thither

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) French: esquiver (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) Swedish: ducka (sv)
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• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: esquivar (es)

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

1. An act of dodging
2. A trick, evasion or wile