dodge

Meanings

Verb

• To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
• To avoid; to sidestep.
• To go hither and thither.
• To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
• To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
• To trick somebody.

Noun

• An act of dodging.
• A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
• A line of work.

Adjective

• dodgy

Related

Similar words

• duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Origin

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