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ducking

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ducking

the act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable
  • the disgraceful ducking of your duties to your family
Synonyms of ducking

avoidance, cop-out, dodging, eluding, elusion, escape, eschewal, eschewing, evasion, out, shaking, shunning
Words Related to ducking

bypassing, circumvention, runaround, sidestepping, skirting

averting, deflection, obviation, precluding, prevention
Near Antonyms of ducking

abidance, endurance, submission, toleration

ducking

verb , present participle of duck

Synonyms and Antonyms of ducking

1 to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
  • don't try to duck your commitment to spending Thanksgiving with your family by claiming you have to work
Synonyms of ducking

avoiding, dodging, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, finessing, getting around, scaping, shaking, shirking, shuffling (out of), shunning, weaseling (out of)
Words Related to ducking

missing

averting, deflecting, diverting, obviating, parrying, preventing, warding (off)

banning, barring, debarring, eliminating, excepting, excluding, precluding, ruling out

bypassing, circumventing, skirting

foiling, foxing, frustrating, outfoxing, outsmarting, outwitting, overreaching, thwarting
Phrases Synonymous with ducking

fighting shy of, keeping clear of, staying clear of, steering clear of
Near Antonyms of ducking

accepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcoming

catching, contracting, incurring
2 to move suddenly aside or to and fro
  • duck behind a pillar before they see us
Synonyms of ducking

dodging, jinking, sidestepping, slaloming, weaving, zigzagging
Words Related to ducking

avoiding, eluding, escaping, evading, parrying, shirking, skirting

deflecting, turning

sliding, slipping
3 to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid
  • ducked the new camper in the lake as a joke
Synonyms of ducking

dipping, dousing (also dowsing), dunking, immersing, sopping, sousing, submerging, submersing
Words Related to ducking

bathing, moistening, soaking, steeping, wetting

drenching, drowning, flooding

diving, plunging, thrusting

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