/ English Dictionary

DODGING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Synonyms:

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dodging" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dodging"):

aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)

escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)

near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

Example:

that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive

Synonyms:

dodging; escape; evasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dodging" is a kind of...):

carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dodging"):

escape mechanism (a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities)

malingering; skulking (evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated)

goldbricking; goofing off; shirking; slacking; soldiering (the evasion of work or duty)

circumvention (the act of evading by going around)

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Synonyms:

dodge; dodging; scheme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dodging" is a kind of...):

falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb dodge

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