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ducking

 
Noun ducking has 2 senses
  1. ducking, duck hunting - hunting ducks
    --1 is a kind of hunt, hunting
  2. submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing - the act of wetting something by submerging it
    --2 is a kind of wetting
    Derived forms: verb duck3, verb duck2
Verb duck has 4 senses
  1. duck - to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
    --1 is one way to
    move
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  2. duck - submerge or plunge suddenly
    --2 is one way to
    dive, plunge, plunk
    Derived form: noun ducking2
    Sample sentence:
    The airplane is sure to duck
  3. dip, douse, duck - dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
    --3 is one way to dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
    Derived form: noun ducking2
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  4. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep - 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"
    --4 is one way to avoid
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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