Circumvent vs. Dodge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Circumvent and Dodge
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Circumvent
To go around; bypass
Circumvented the city.
Dodge
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Circumvent
To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering
Circumvented the bureaucratic red tape.
Dodge
To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
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.
Circumvent
(transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass
Dodge
To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
Circumvent
(transitive) to surround or besiege
Dodge
To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly
The child dodged through the crowd.
Circumvent
(transitive) to outwit or outsmart
Dodge
To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
Circumvent
To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
I circumvented whom I could not gain.
Dodge
The act of dodging
Made a dodge to the left.
Circumvent
Surround so as to force to give up;
The Turks besieged Vienna
Dodge
A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone
A tax dodge.
Circumvent
Beat through cleverness and wit;
I beat the traffic
She outfoxed her competitors
Dodge
(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
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
Dodge
To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
Dodge
(archaic) To go hither and thither.
Dodge
To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
Dodge
(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Dodge
To trick somebody.
Dodge
An act of dodging.
Dodge
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
Dodge
(slang) A line of work.
Dodge
(Australian) Dodgy.
Dodge
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
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.
Dodge
To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Dodge
Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
Dodge
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
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.
Dodge
An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
Dodge
A quick evasive movement
Dodge
A statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Dodge
Make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid;
The child dodged the teacher's blow
Dodge
Move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course;
The pickpocket dodged through the crowd
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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