dodge

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This dodge was then followed by a bit of light entertainment, for me anyway, at the site of a vendor on Springfield Road still trying to punt Henrick Larsson flags.

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  1. transitive verb To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
  2. transitive verb To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit: kept dodging the reporter's questions.
  3. transitive verb To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
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  • With defense, dodge, and block value, this item has perhaps the perfect distribution of tanking stats on it. —  WarCry Network : Latest News
  • I think the dodge is even in evidence in the preference of the —  amor mundi
  • Druids only had one "avoidance" stat, dodge, and could not parry or block attacks with a shield as other tanks did. —  Psychochild's Blog
  • Clint: Depending on the year of the dodge, they are very difficult to steal. —  Badger Blogger
  • He knows why the dodge was significant, but those low-information voters who are somehow undecided - the ones who will decide our country's fate - don't know. —  Obsidian Wings
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silverado ·  ruse ·  dodger ·  artlessness ·  sleight ·  maneuvering ·  manoeuvring ·  schemer ·  involutions ·  evasion

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dodge:   dodged ·  dodging
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. First recorded in early modern English; perhaps (the termination -ge being apparently due to a Middle English form *dodien, *dodyen; cf. soldier, pron. sōl′jėr) connected with Scots dod, jog, North. English dad, shake, whence the freq. forms dodder, doddle, dadder, daddle; cf. didder, diddle.
  2. from dodge, v.
 

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