Ducking Synonyms and Antonyms

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hedging
  2. evading
  3. skirting
  4. sidestepping
  5. dodging
  6. sousing
  7. plunging
  8. eluding
  9. immersing
  10. parrying
  11. avoiding
  12. circumventing
  13. diving
  14. dipping
  15. fudging
  16. cringing
Antonyms:
  1. meeting
  2. facing
  3. jumping
To lower the head or body quickly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bobbing
  2. stooping
  3. bending
Hunting ducks
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. duck hunting
The act of wetting something by submerging it
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. submersion
  2. immersion
  3. dousing

Words Related to Ducking

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Ducking Sentence Examples

  • This ducking was the very thing he needed.

  • He walked around to the driver's side, ducking his head as he folded his long frame into the car.

  • Instead of ducking into the ladies' room, she pushed through the back entrance, which emptied out into a dark, rainy alley.

  • They're acting out some bizarre kid's story for the cancer kids, Han said, ducking his head into the office.

  • She swung the boulder up, ducking as it slapped the side of the cliff just short of the ledge and fell back to her.

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