intransitive verb. To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.

intransitive verb. To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit.

intransitive verb. To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.

intransitive verb. To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly.

intransitive verb. To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.

noun. The act of dodging.

noun. A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone: synonym: wile.

In change-ringing, to change the place or order of (a bell) in the series used.

noun. Of a bell in change-ringing, a change in its place or order in the series used.

noun. A shifty or ingenious trick; an artifice; an evasion.

To start suddenly aside; shift place by a sudden start, as to evade a blow or escape observation.

To shift about; move cautiously, as in avoiding discovery, or in following and watching another's movements: as, he dodged along byways and hedges; the Indians dodged from tree to tree.

To play tricks; be evasive; play fast and loose; raise expectations and disappoint them; quibble.

To jog; walk in a slow, listless, or clumsy manner.

To evade by a sudden shift of place, or by trick or device; escape by starting aside, or by baffling or roundabout movements: as, to dodge a blow; to dodge a pursuer or a creditor; to dodge a perplexing question.

To play fast and loose with; baffle by shifts and pretexts; trick.

intransitive verb. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

intransitive verb. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

transitive verb. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside.

transitive verb. Fig.: To evade by craft

transitive verb. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

noun. The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

verb. To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly).

verb. To avoid; to sidestep.

verb. To go hither and thither.

verb. To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn.

noun. An act of dodging

noun. A trick, evasion or wile

verb. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

noun. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

noun. a quick evasive movement

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

noun. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

verb. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

"It’s now almost as outdated in the neologism dodge as the suffixes -arama and -aholic."

dodger  dodgy  

evasion  falsehood  falsity  move  untruth  

Hodge  Lodge  dislodge  lodge  podge  

artlessness  dodger  evasion  involutions  maneuvering  

about the bush  action  ad hoc measure  answer  around the bush  

dodged  dodges  dodging