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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
