English Explanatory Dictionary

dodge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. To elude.
  4. To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
  5. 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).
  6. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  7. To trick somebody.
noun
  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  3. A line of work.
adj
  1. Dodgy.
name
  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. A placename
  3. A village in Nebraska.
  4. A city and village in North Dakota.
  5. A census-designated place in Oklahoma.
  6. A town in Wisconsin.
  7. A brand of motor vehicle.

Pronunciation

/dɒd͡ʒ/ /dɑd͡ʒ/ en-us-dodge.ogg

Word forms

dodge dodges dodging dodged more dodge most dodge

Etymology

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

Synonyms

duck evade fudge skirt shun

Derived words

dodgeable dodge a bullet dodgeball dodgeful dodgem dodger dodgery dodge the column dodge up dodgy draft-dodge outdodge undodged scaldrum dodge Dodge City Dodge County Fort Dodge get out of Dodge
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