Deflect vs. Dodge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Deflect and Dodge
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Deflect
Cause (something) to change direction; turn aside from a straight course
He attempted to deflect attention away from his private life
The bullet was deflected harmlessly into the ceiling
Dodge
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Deflect
To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate.
Dodge
To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
Deflect
(transitive) To make (something) deviate from its original path.
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Dodge
To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit
Kept dodging the reporter's questions.
Deflect
To touch the ball, often unwittingly, after a shot or a sharp pass, thereby making it unpredictable for the other players.
The defender deflected the cross into his own net.
Dodge
To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
Deflect
(intransitive) To deviate from its original path.
Dodge
To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly
The child dodged through the crowd.
Deflect
To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.
Dodge
To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
Deflect
To divert (attention, etc.).
Dodge
The act of dodging
Made a dodge to the left.
Deflect
To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected; to deflect a punch; to deflect criticism by acknowledging a mistake.
Sitting with their knees deflected under them.
Dodge
A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone
A tax dodge.
Deflect
To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.
At some part of the Azores, the needle deflecteth not, but lieth in the true meridian.
To deflect from the line of truth and reason.
Dodge
(ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
He dodged traffic crossing the street.
Deflect
Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
Let's avoid a confrontation
Head off a confrontation
Avert a strike
Dodge
To avoid; to sidestep.
The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
Deflect
Turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
Dodge
(archaic) To go hither and thither.
Deflect
Turn aside
Dodge
To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
Deflect
Draw someone's attention away from something;
The thief distracted the bystanders
He deflected his competitors
Dodge
(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
Deflect
Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball);
Block an attack
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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