| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act of swimming: dip, dunk, plunge, swim. See WORK. | | VERB: | 1. To keep away from: avoid, burke, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, eschew, evade, get around, shun. Idioms: fight shy of, give a wide berth to, have no truck with, keep (or stay) (or steer) clear of. See SEEK. 2. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: dip, douse, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. See ENTER. 3. To avoid fulfilling or answering completely: dodge, evade, hedge, sidestep, skirt. See SEEK.
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