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Another word for duck

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Verb

  1. To avoid fulfilling or answering completely

    See also:

    seek

  2. To keep away from

    Idioms:
    See also:

    seek

  3. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid

    See also:

    enter

Noun

  1. The act of swimming

    See also:

    work

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Another word for duck

Noun
Verb

  1. To lower the head or body quickly

    See also:

    bow

  2. To immerse quickly

    See also:

    immerse

    dip

  3. To avoid

    See also:

    evade

    avoid

Idioms:

    like-water-off-a-duck-s-back

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I just need a place to duck out of the rain for a bit.

  • Game birds consist of teal and wild duck, snipe, jungle fowl and peacock.

  • He was convinced that, as a duck is so made that it must live in water, so God had made him such that he must spend thirty thousand rubles a year and always occupy a prominent position in society.

  • Rita would convey the message to Jonathan Winston as well allowing Dean to temporarily duck having to explain to the FBI why he played cowboy and lost the tail instead of getting the plate number.

  • He slid up right behind her before she could duck into a shop.

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