Synonyms of the word

duck

• v. (intransitive) To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
• v. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water…
• v. (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
• v. (intransitive) To bow.
• v. (transitive) To evade doing something.
• v. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
• n. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
• n. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
• n. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round…
• n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
• n. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
• n. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
• n. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
• n. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
• n. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
• n. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
• n. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
• n. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
• n. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

circumvent

• v. (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass.
• v. (transitive) to surround or besiege.
• v. (transitive) to outwit or outsmart.

cloth

• n. (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
• n. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
• n. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) A form of attire…
• n. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.

dip

• n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
• n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
• n. A dip stick.
• n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
• n. A sauce for dipping.
• n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
• n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
• n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
• n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
• n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
• v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
• v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
• v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
• v. To immerse for baptism.
• v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
• v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
• v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
• v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
• n. A foolish person.
• n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

dive

• v. To swim under water.
• v. To jump into water head-first.
• v. To descend sharply or steeply.
• v. (especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
• v. (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's…
• v. To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
• v. (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
• v. (figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to…
• n. A jump or plunge into water.
• n. A swim under water.
• n. A decline.
• n. (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
• n. (aviation) Aerial descend with the nose pointed down.
• n. (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
• n. plural of diva.

dodge

• v. To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
• v. (figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
• v. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
• v. (photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare…
• v. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
• n. An act of dodging.
• n. A trick, evasion or wile.

douse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
• v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To strike.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
• n. A blow; stroke.

dunk

• v. To submerge briefly in a liquid.
• v. To set down carelessly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing…
• n. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.

elude

• v. (transitive) To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
• v. (transitive) To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
• v. (transitive) To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

evade

• v. (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to…
• v. (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

fabric

• n. (archaic) structure, building.
• n. (archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.
• n. (archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship;…
• n. The framework underlying a structure.
• n. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
• n. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
• n. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance.

fudge

• n. (chiefly uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
• n. (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with…
• n. (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
• n. (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
• n. (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the…
• v. (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
• v. To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily…
• interj. (minced oath) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.

hedge

• n. A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two…
• n. (Britain, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes,…
• n. (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
• n. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements…
• n. (Britain, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing,…
• v. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
• v. (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
• v. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
• v. (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

material

• adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
• adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
• adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
• n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
• n. Text written for a specific purpose.
• n. A sample or specimens for study.
• n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
• n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
• n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
• n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

parry

• n. A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
• n. (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
• v. To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).

plunge

• n. the act of plunging or submerging.
• n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
• n. (dated) A swimming pool.
• n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
• n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
• n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
• v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
• v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
• v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

plunk

• v. (transitive) To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound.
• v. (intransitive) To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down.
• v. (baseball, transitive) To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch.
• v. (intransitive, of a raven) To croak.
• v. (transitive) To pluck and quickly release (a musical string); to twang.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).
• n. The dull thud of something landing on a surface.
• n. (slang, obsolete) A large sum of money.
• n. (slang, obsolete, US) A dollar.

poultry

• n. domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
• n. the meat from a domestic fowl.

score

• n. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
• n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of…
• n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or…
• n. Twenty, 20 (number).
• n. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
• n. A weight of twenty pounds.
• n. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each…
• n. (music) The music of a movie or play.
• n. Subject.
• n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
• n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the…
• n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
• n. (US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
• n. (US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• n. (US, slang) A sexual conquest.
• v. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
• v. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
• interj. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success.

sidestep

• n. A step to the side.
• n. A motion, physical or metaphorical, to avoid or dodge something.
• v. (intransitive) To step to the side.
• v. (transitive) To avoid or dodge.

skirt

• n. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower…
• n. The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
• n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• n. A petticoat.
• n. (pejorative, slang) A woman.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
• v. To be on or form the border of.
• v. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
• v. To cover with a skirt; to surround.

souse

• n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
• n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
• n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
• n. A heavy blow.
• v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
• v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
• n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
• n. (dated) A small amount.

textile

• n. (usually in the plural) Cloth produced from a fabric.
• n. (naturism) A non-nudist.
• adj. (naturism) Clothing compulsive.