dodging
noun
1 dodging
Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.
synonyms: escape, evasion.
Roget 270:
transfer,
transference;
translocation,
elocation†;
displacement;
metastasis,
metathesis;
removal;
remotion†,
amotion†;
relegation;
deportation,
asportation†;
extradition,
conveyance,
draft,
carrying,
carriage;
convection,
conduction,
contagion;
transfer
etc.
(of property)
783.
transit,
transition;
passage,
ferry,
gestation;
portage,
porterage†,
carting,
cartage;
shoveling
etc.
v.;
vection†,
vecture†,
vectitation†;
shipment,
freight,
wafture†;
transmission,
transport,
transportation,
importation,
exportation,
transumption†,
transplantation,
translation;
shifting,
dodging;
dispersion
etc.
73;
transposition
etc.
(interchange)
148;
traction
etc.
285.
[Thing transferred]
drift.
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Dutch: ontduiking
2 dodging
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.
synonyms: dodge, scheme.
3 dodging
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away.
Dutch: vermijden, vermijding
Polish: stronienie, unikanie
Moby thesaurus: 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, welshing ... show more.
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