Definitions:

1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing duties, questions, or issues verb
   • The politician dodged the issue again.
2. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid verb
   • The child dodged the teacher's blow
3. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course verb
   • the pickpocket dodged through the crowd

Synonyms:

• circumvent
• contrivance
• dodging
• duck
• elude
• evade
• fudge
• hedge
• parry
• put off
• scheme
• sidestep
• skirt
• stratagem

NearBy Words:

• dodger