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Circumvent

To go around; bypass
Circumvented the city.
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Dodge

Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles include performance cars, though for much of its existence Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.
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Circumvent

To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering
Circumvented the bureaucratic red tape.
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Dodge

To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
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Circumvent

To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap.
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Dodge

To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit
Kept dodging the reporter's questions.
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Circumvent

(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
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Dodge

To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
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Circumvent

(transitive) to surround or besiege
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Dodge

To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly
The child dodged through the crowd.
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Circumvent

(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
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Dodge

To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
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Circumvent

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
I circumvented whom I could not gain.
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Dodge

The act of dodging
Made a dodge to the left.
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Circumvent

Surround so as to force to give up;
The Turks besieged Vienna
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Dodge

A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone
A tax dodge.
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Circumvent

Beat through cleverness and wit;
I beat the traffic
She outfoxed her competitors
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Dodge

(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
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Circumvent

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
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Dodge

To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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Dodge

(archaic) To go hither and thither.
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Dodge

To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
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Dodge

(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
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Dodge

To trick somebody.
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Dodge

An act of dodging.
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Dodge

A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
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Dodge

(slang) A line of work.
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Dodge

(Australian) Dodgy.
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Dodge

To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
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Dodge

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.
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Dodge

To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
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Dodge

Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
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Dodge

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
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Dodge

The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries.
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Dodge

An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
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Dodge

A quick evasive movement
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Dodge

A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
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Dodge

Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid;
The child dodged the teacher's blow
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Dodge

Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course;
The pickpocket dodged through the crowd
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Dodge

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
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