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      dodge
      noun
      An act of dodging.
      A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
      (slang) A line of work.
      A brand of motor vehicle.
      (countable, chiefly US) A surname originating as a patronymic.
      A placename
      A village in Nebraska.
      A city and village in North Dakota.
      A census-designated place in Oklahoma.
      A town in Wisconsin.
      verb
      (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
      (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
      (transitive) To elude.
      (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
      (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).
      (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
      (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
      adjective
      (Australia, British, colloquial) Dodgy.
      Synonyms for dodge
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