DODGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dodging mean? 

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

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

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

3. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

  Familiarity information: DODGING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DODGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dodging; escape; evasion

Context example:

that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive

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

carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

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

escape mechanism (a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities)

malingering; skulking (evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated)

goldbricking; goofing off; shirking; slacking; soldiering (the evasion of work or duty)

circumvention (the act of evading by going around)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dodge; dodging; scheme

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

falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away

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

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

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

aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)

escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)

near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

But here was a dog that kept at a distance, dancing and dodging here and there and all about.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

White Fang still danced on, dodging and doubling, leaping in and out, and ever inflicting damage.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked it overboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it; and second, when he had incurred the risk, by dodging and by retreating.

(White Fang, by Jack London)