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dodging
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dodging has 3 senses
- dodging(n = noun.act) escape, evasion - nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" is a kind of carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance
- dodging(n = noun.communication) dodge, scheme - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; Array is a kind of falsehood, falsity, untruth
- dodging(n = noun.act) avoidance, shunning, turning away - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening; Array is a kind of rejection
has particulars: escape mechanism, malingering, skulking, goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering, circumvention
Derived form verb dodge3
has particulars: aversion, averting, escape, near thing
Derived form verb dodge3
THESAURUS
dodging
bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, clock-watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, malingering, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, skulking, slacking, soldiering, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tax dodging, tax evasion, tergiversation, trichoschistism, truancy, weasel words, welshingROGET THESAURUS
dodging
Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.
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