dodge

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɒd͡ʒ/ (General American) IPA(key): /dɑd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -ɒdʒ === Verb === dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged) (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep. (transitive) To elude. (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither. (photography, videography) 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). Coordinate term: burn (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody. ==== Synonyms ==== (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === dodge (plural dodges) An act of dodging. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) (slang) A line of work. ==== Derived terms ==== scaldrum dodge ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge) (Australia, UK, colloquial) Dodgy.