Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.).

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.

step

• n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
• n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• n. A small space or distance.
• n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• n. A gait; manner of walking.
• n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• n. (plural) A walk; passage.
• n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
• n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
• n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• n. (slang) A stepsibling.
• v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
• v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.