dodge

v

1. shift, move or dart aside, jump away, parry; duck, bob, bob and weave, veer, swerve, jib; whiffle, sidestep; shy, recoil, draw back.

2. avoid, elude, evade, give [s.o.] the slip; hide from, stow away, escape, skulk; bolt, run away, decamp, abscond, elope, take off, scram; shun, stay clear, make oneself scarce, sneak off, sneak out the back way; stay out, play truant, shuffle off to Buffalo, malinger, call in sick.

3. prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, Sl. waffle, fudge; hedge, qualify; doubletalk, palter, backtrack, back-pedal, sidetrack; tergiversate, vacillate, shillyshally.

n

4. sidestep, dart, swerve, swerving; elusion, evasion, avoidance, escape.

5.Informal. trick, ruse, wile, ploy, feint; stratagem, scheme, contrivance, maneuver, artifice, subterfuge, machination, expedient, shift; ingenuity, adroitness, slyness, cunning, sharp practice; chicane, deception, prevarication, equivocation, double talk, sophistry.