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duckingnoun the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirablethe disgraceful ducking of your duties to your family avoidance, cop-out, dodging, eluding, elusion, escape, eschewal, eschewing, evasion, out, shaking, shunning bypassing, circumvention, runaround, sidestepping, skirtingaverting, deflection, obviation, precluding, prevention abidance, endurance, submission, toleration duckingverbpresent participle of duckto get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickerydon't try to duck your commitment to spending Thanksgiving with your family by claiming you have to work avoiding, dodging, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, finessing, getting around, scaping, shaking, shirking, shuffling (out of), shunning, weaseling (out of) missingaverting, deflecting, diverting, obviating, parrying, preventing, warding (off)banning, barring, debarring, eliminating, excepting, excluding, precluding, ruling outbypassing, circumventing, skirtingfoiling, foxing, frustrating, outfoxing, outsmarting, outwitting, overreaching, thwarting fighting shy of, keeping clear of, staying clear of, steering clear of accepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcomingcatching, contracting, incurring to move suddenly aside or to and froduck behind a pillar before they see us dodging, jinking, sidestepping, slaloming, weaving, zigzagging avoiding, eluding, escaping, evading, parrying, shirking, skirtingdeflecting, turningsliding, slipping to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquidducked the new camper in the lake as a joke dipping, dousing(also dowsing), dunking, immersing, sopping, sousing, submerging, submersing bathing, moistening, soaking, steeping, wettingdrenching, drowning, floodingdiving, plunging, thrusting |