| avert | | |
| v. (social) | 1. avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off | prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening.; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| v. (motion) | 2. avert, turn away | turn away or aside.; "They averted their eyes when the King entered" |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| dodge | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. contrivance, dodge, stratagem | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" |
| ~ scheme, strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action. |
| ~ plant | something planted secretly for discovery by another.; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant" |
| ~ pump-and-dump scheme | an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices; the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises. |
| ~ wangle, wangling | an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery. |
| n. (act) | 2. dodge | a quick evasive movement. |
| ~ evasion | the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver. |
| n. (communication) | 3. dodge, dodging, scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery. |
| ~ falsehood, untruth, falsity | a false statement. |
| v. (motion) | 4. dodge | make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid.; "The child dodged the teacher's blow" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (motion) | 5. dodge | move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course.; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (communication) | 6. circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).; "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" |
| ~ beg | dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted.; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion" |
| ~ quibble | evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections. |
| ~ avoid | stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something.; "Her former friends now avoid her" |
| evade | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bilk, elude, evade | escape, either physically or mentally.; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" |
| ~ escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement.; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
| v. (social) | 2. evade | practice evasion.; "This man always hesitates and evades" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (communication) | 3. evade | use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid.; "The con man always evades" |
| ~ get away, escape, get by, get off, get out | escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" |
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