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dodge
biographical name
1. Mary Elizabeth 1831–1905 née Am. author.
noun
1. An ingenious expedient intended to evade or trick. See Synonyms at wile.
2. The act of dodging.
3. An act of evading by sudden bodily movement.
4. An artful device to evade, deceive, or trick.
verb
1. To move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course .
2. To make a sudden movement in a new direction (as to evade a blow) .
3. To evade a responsibility or duty especially by trickery or deceit.
4. To evade by a sudden or repeated shift of position .
5. To avoid an encounter with .
verb-intransitive
1. To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly: The child dodged through the crowd.
2. To practice trickery or cunning; prevaricate.
verb-transitive
1. To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
2. To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
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dodge | 8 |
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do | 3 |
ed | 3 |
go | 3 |
od | 3 |
oe | 2 |
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doe | 4 |
dog | 5 |
ego | 4 |
ged | 5 |
god | 5 |
odd | 5 |
ode | 4 |
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doge | 6 |
eddo | 6 |
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dodge | 8 |