dodge
/dɑd͡ʒ/ verb C1- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. · He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- To avoid; to sidestep. · The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
- To elude.
- To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To trick somebody.
He/she/it dodges · Past dodged · Past participle dodged · -ing form dodging
Verb forms
- Base form
- dodge
- He/she/it
- dodges
- Past
- dodged
- Past participle
- dodged
- -ing form
- dodging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I thought I’d dodge your British law; for I was not sure how I stood under it, and also I saw my chance to throw these hounds once for all off my track.
He dodged round the table as quick as an eel, and a moment later he’d got his gun from under his coat.
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.
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