DODGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dodge mean? 

• DODGE (noun)
  The noun DODGE has 3 senses:

1. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

2. a quick evasive movement

3. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

  Familiarity information: DODGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• DODGE (verb)
  The verb DODGE has 3 senses:

1. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

2. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

3. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

  Familiarity information: DODGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DODGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

contrivance; dodge; stratagem

Context example:

his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track

Hypernyms ("dodge" is a kind of...):

scheme; strategy (an elaborate and systematic plan of action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dodge"):

plant (something planted secretly for discovery by another)

pump-and-dump scheme (an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises)

wangle; wangling (an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery)

Derivation:

dodgy (marked by skill in deception)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quick evasive movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dodge" is a kind of...):

evasion (the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver)

Derivation:

dodge (make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dodge; dodging; scheme

Hypernyms ("dodge" is a kind of...):

falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)

Derivation:

dodge (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues))

• DODGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dodge    ... he / she / it dodges   
Past simple: dodged   
Past participle: dodged   
-ing form: dodging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The child dodged the teacher's blow

Hypernyms (to "dodge" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dodge (a quick evasive movement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the pickpocket dodged through the crowd

Hypernyms (to "dodge" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

circumvent; dodge; duck; elude; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; sidestep; skirt

Context example:

he evaded the questions skillfully

Hypernyms (to "dodge" is one way to...):

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dodge"):

beg (dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted)

quibble (evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dodge (a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery)

dodger (a shifty deceptive person)

dodging (deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening)

dodging (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do)

 Context examples 

I thought the police never could have seen through our dodge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He dodged this way and that, and curved and turned, but to no purpose.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He dodged in and out through the thickest of the scrub until he came to a dense clump of brush-wood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But she resolutely dodged with him, until the first glimmerings of reason returned and he gave over.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Oh, an old horse-faker like him has many a dodge.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before he could recover, I was safe out of the corner where he had me trapped, with all the deck to dodge about.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They'll go lovering around the house, and we shall have to dodge.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Animals have evolved over millennia to use camouflage as a lifesaving way to dodge predators - so what happens to them when, over the course of just a few decades, their environments change?

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

And so we dodged about the deck, hand in hand, like a couple of children chased by a wicked ogre, till Wolf Larsen, evidently in disgust, left the deck for the cabin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This part of the business, however, did not last long; for the young rascal, being expert at a variety of feints and dodges, of which my aunt had no conception, soon went whooping away, leaving some deep impressions of his nailed boots in the flower-beds, and taking his donkey in triumph with him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)