Dodging Synonyms and Antonyms

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. evading
  2. skirting
  3. sidestepping
  4. hedging
  5. eluding
  6. ducking
  7. parrying
  8. circumventing
  9. fudging
Antonyms:
  1. confronting
  2. encountering
  3. facing
  4. meeting
To keep away from
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. evading
  2. escaping
  3. eluding
  4. ducking
  5. tricking
  6. shunning
  7. swerving
  8. skirting
  9. sidestepping
  10. shirking
  11. eschewing
  12. shifting
  13. pussyfooting
  14. prevaricating
  15. parrying
  16. hedging
  17. avoiding
  18. equivocating
  19. circumventing
  20. ditching
  21. deceiving
  22. bypassing
  23. cheating
  24. averting
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. evasion
  2. dodge
  3. clock-watching
  4. scheme
  5. escape
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. avoidance
  2. turning-away
  3. shunning

Dodging Sentence Examples

  • The boy ran through the crowded marketplace, dodging merchants' carts and weaving through the patrons.

  • The rest required some good left and right dodging moves.

  • Dodging a caprine avalanche, she joined Alex again.

  • Dodging, diving and crouching are important to learn.

  • Plenty of the public came out to support us, dodging the showers, and enjoying the wide variety of entertainment's and displays.

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