dodge
To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
Verb 4 meanings
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).
Noun 2 meanings
An act of dodging.
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
Adjective 1 meaning
Dodgy.
Etymology
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin.
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DODGE at a glance
DODGE has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (D 2 + O 1 + D 2 + G 2 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,792 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dodge
All rhymesOne letter away
- LODGE7
- DODGY11
- PODGE9
- BODGE9
- WODGE10
- MODGE9
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