dodge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
2. v. To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit: kept dodging the reporter's questions.
3. v. To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
4. v. To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly: The child dodged through the crowd.
5. v. To practice trickery or cunning; prevaricate.
6. n. The act of dodging.
7. n. An ingenious expedient intended to evade or trick. See Synonyms at wile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To start suddenly aside; shift place by a sudden start, as to evade a blow or escape observation.
2. To shift about; move cautiously, as in avoiding discovery, or in following and watching another's movements: as, he dodged along byways and hedges; the Indians dodged from tree to tree.
3. To play tricks; be evasive; play fast and loose; raise expectations and disappoint them; quibble.
4. To jog; walk in a slow, listless, or clumsy manner.
5. To evade by a sudden shift of place, or by trick or device; escape by starting aside, or by baffling or roundabout movements: as, to dodge a blow; to dodge a pursuer or a creditor; to dodge a perplexing question.
6. To play fast and loose with; baffle by shifts and pretexts; trick.
7. n. A shifty or ingenious trick; an artifice; an evasion.
8. In change-ringing, to change the place or order of (a bell) in the series used.
9. n. Of a bell in change-ringing, a change in its place or order in the series used.

Wiktionary

1. v. To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly).
2. v. figuratively To avoid; to sidestep.
3. v. archaic To go hither and thither.
4. v. photography To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn.
5. n. An act of dodging
6. n. A trick, evasion or wile

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
2. v. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
3. v. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside.
4. v. colloq. Fig.: To evade by craft
5. v. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
6. n. colloq. The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
2. n. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
3. n. a quick evasive movement
4. v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
5. n. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
6. v. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course