Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

candy

• n. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial…
• n. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
• v. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
• v. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
• n. (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds…

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

circumvent

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

confect

• v. To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients…
• v. (obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
• n. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection,…

cook

• n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
• n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
• n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
• n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
• v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
• v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
• v. To concoct or prepare.
• v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
• v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

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.

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).

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.

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

falsify

• v. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
• v. (transitive) To misrepresent.
• v. (transitive) To prove to be false.
• v. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
• v. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

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.

manipulate

• v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
• v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
• v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

misrepresent

• v. To represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.

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.).

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.

wangle

• v. (transitive) To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.
• v. (transitive) To falsify, as records.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
• n. The act of wangling.