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61avoid — Synonyms and related words: abstain, abstain from, avert, be stuck up, bilk, blench, blink, circumvent, cringe, debar, deflect, divert, do without, dodge, double, draw back, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, exclude, fade, fall back, fight shy… …
62dodge — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, action, ad hoc measure, answer, around the bush, art, artful dodge, artifice, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, bag of tricks, ballot box stuffing, be stuck up, beat about, beat around …
63duck — Synonyms and related words: Adamite, Bantam, Cornish hen, about the bush, also ran, angel, avert, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, babe, baby, baby doll, back and fill, banty, baptism, baptize, barn door fowl, barnyard fowl, bastard, beat… …
64evade — Synonyms and related words: abstain, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, bail out, beat about, beg, beg the question, bicker, bilk, blench, blink, boggle, break away, break jail, break loose, bypass, cavil, cheat, choplogic, circumvent, cop… …
65sheer off — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, avert, avoid, bear off, beat around, beg the question, blench, blink, cringe, dodge, draw aside, draw back, duck, ease off, edge off, equivocate, evade, fade, fall back, fence, flinch, fly off, gee,… …
66weasel — Synonyms and related words: Argus, Cape polecat, Skimobile, Sno Cat, ape, avoid, back and fill, bar, bear, blade, blench, blink, cat, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, cringe, dodge, draw back, duck, eagle, equivocate, evade, fade, fall back, ferret …
67recoil — 1. verb 1) she instinctively recoiled Syn: draw back, jump back, pull back; flinch, shy away, shrink (back) See note at wince 2) he recoiled from the thought Syn: feel revulsion at …
68blench — Synonyms and related words: ache, agonize, ail, anguish, avoid, blanch, bleach, blink, boggle, cringe, decolor, decolorize, demur, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, fight shy of, flinch, funk,… …
69blink — Synonyms and related words: albedo, avoid, bat, bat the eyes, blench, blink at, blinking, broken, carefully ignore, cast, cold shoulder, coruscate, coruscation, cringe, cut a corner, cut corners, disregard, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade,… …
70cringe — Synonyms and related words: apple polish, avoid, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, blench, blink, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, brown nose, cower, crawl, creep, cringe to, croodle, crouch, crouch before, curtsy,… …