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English noun: dodging | |||
| 1. | dodging (act) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | ||
| Samples | His evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible. That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive. | ||
| Synonyms | escape, evasion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | circumvention, escape mechanism, goldbricking, goofing off, malingering, shirking, skulking, slacking, soldiering | ||
| 2. | dodging (communication) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | ||
| Synonyms | dodge, scheme | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | falsehood, falsity, untruth | ||
| 3. | dodging (act) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | ||
| Synonyms | avoidance, shunning, turning away | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rejection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aversion, averting, escape, near thing | ||
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