dodge

verb · noun · adjectiveA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

dodges

V_ing/Gerund

dodging

V_ed/pp

dodged

1.
(ambitransitive)To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
3.
(transitive)To elude.
4.
(ambitransitive, archaic)To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
5.
(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).
6.
(transitive)To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
7.
(ambitransitive, dated)To trick somebody.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

dodges

1.
An act of dodging.
2.
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
3.
(slang)A line of work.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more dodge

Superlative

most dodge

1.
(Australia, British, colloquial)Dodgy.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

duck evade fudge shun skirtto avoid duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Cùng gốc / liên quan

undodgeddodgeabledodgefuldodgeryoutdodgedodge a bulletdodgeballdodgem dodger dodgydodge the columndodge updraft-dodge

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Nguồn gốc từ

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