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FUDGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft creamy candy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

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

chocolate fudge (fudge made with chocolate or cocoa)

divinity; divinity fudge (white creamy fudge made with egg whites)

panocha; panoche; penoche; penuche (fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

he evaded the questions skillfully

Synonyms:

circumvent; dodge; duck; elude; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; sidestep; skirt

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "fudge" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fudge"):

beg (dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted)

quibble (evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tamper, with the purpose of deception

Example:

falsify the data

Synonyms:

cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "fudge" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fudge"):

juggle (manipulate by or as if by moving around components)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

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