dodge

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juoni To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

He dodged traffic crossing the street.

The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.

A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner, like a sheep, and cut me off.