dodge

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To avoid (a blow, for example) by moving or shifting quickly aside.
• intransitive verb To evade (an obligation, for example) by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
• intransitive verb To blunt or reduce the intensity of (a section of a photograph) by shading during the printing process.
• intransitive verb To move aside or in a given direction by shifting or twisting suddenly.
• intransitive verb To evade something by cunning, trickery, or deceit.
• noun The act of dodging.
• noun A cunning or deceitful act intended to evade something or trick someone: synonym: wile.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In change-ringing, to change the place or order of (a bell) in the series used.
• noun Of a bell in change-ringing, a change in its place or order in the series used.
• noun A shifty or ingenious trick; an artifice; an evasion.
• To start suddenly aside; shift place by a sudden start, as to evade a blow or escape observation.
• To shift about; move cautiously, as in avoiding discovery, or in following and watching another's movements: as, he dodged along byways and hedges; the Indians dodged from tree to tree.
• To play tricks; be evasive; play fast and loose; raise expectations and disappoint them; quibble.
• To jog; walk in a slow, listless, or clumsy manner.
• To evade by a sudden shift of place, or by trick or device; escape by starting aside, or by baffling or roundabout movements: as, to dodge a blow; to dodge a pursuer or a creditor; to dodge a perplexing question.
• To play fast and loose with; baffle by shifts and pretexts; trick.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
• intransitive verb To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
• transitive verb To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside.
• transitive verb colloq. Fig.: To evade by craft
• transitive verb To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
• noun colloq. 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To avoid by moving out of the way (often suddenly).
• verb figuratively To avoid; to sidestep.
• verb archaic To go hither and thither.
• verb photography To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn.
• noun An act of dodging
• noun A trick, evasion or wile

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
• noun a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
• noun a quick evasive movement
• verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• noun an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
• verb move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course