Synonyms for duck
dʌkduck

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1. duck

   Dip is Saxon, while immerse is Latin for the same initial act; dip is accordingly the more popular and commonplace, immerse the more elegant and dignified expression in many cases. To speak of baptism by immersion as dipping now seems rude; tho entirely proper and usual in early English. Baptists now universally use the word immerse. To dip and to immerse alike signify to bury or submerge some object in a liquid; but dip implies that the object dipped is at once removed from the liquid, while immerse is wholly silent as to the removal. Immerse also suggests more absolute completeness of the action; one may dip his sleeve or dip a sponge in a liquid, if he but touches the edge; if he immerses it, he completely sinks it under, and covers it with the liquid. Submerge implies that the object can not readily be removed, if at all; as, a submerged wreck. To plunge is to immerse suddenly and violently, for which douse and duck are colloquial terms. Dip is used, also, unlike the other words, to denote the putting of a hollow vessel into a liquid in order to remove a portion of it; in this sense we say dip up, dip out. Compare synonyms for BURY.

   Synonyms:
   bury, dip, douse, immerge, immerse, plunge, sink, submerge

   Preposition:
   The object is immersed in water.

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1. ducknoun

   small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

2. duck, duck's eggnoun

   (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

3. ducknoun

   flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

4. duckverb

   a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

   Synonyms:
   duck's egg

5. duckverb

   to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

   "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, douse, elude, dip, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, dodge

6. duckverb

   submerge or plunge suddenly

   Synonyms:
   parry, circumvent, evade, hedge, douse, elude, dip, fudge, put off, skirt, sidestep, dodge

7. dip, douse, duckverb

   dip into a liquid

   "He dipped into the pool"

   Synonyms:
   parry, fudge, dim, hedge, dodge, dowse, dunk, skirt, sink, put out, souse, sop, soak, circumvent, dip, put off, elude, drench, douse, evade, plunge, sidestep

8. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, elude, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

Matched Categories

1. • Anseriform Bird
   • Avoid
   • Cricket
   • Dive
   • Move
   • Poultry
   • Score

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1. duckverb

   Synonyms:
   immerse, plunge, souse, dip

2. duckverb

   Synonyms:
   dive, plunge, dip, immerse one's self

3. duckverb

   Synonyms:
   bow, cringe

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ducknoun

   Synonyms:
   drake (male), teal

   Associated words:
   anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack

2. ducknoun

   Synonyms:
   anatidæ, anseres

   Associated words:
   anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack

3. duckverb

   Synonyms:
   souse, dip, plunge, immerse, dive, dodge, cringe

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1. List of paraphrases for "duck":

   ducks, canard, ducky, duckling, duk, ap, goose

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1. Chief Executive Lance Fritz:

   It's a really hard call, it's very difficult to move anything in a lame duck session... but we'd like to see that and we'd really encourage that.

2. Tiffany Carol Fintel:

   When I arrived at the shelter to discover 15 cats, Jean said to load as many as we could fit, if there had been pigs or even a duck she would have told me to take them too lol. The cats are settling in and we have a few cat rescues stepping up to help with them.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   I'll ask him all about these documents and about what he intends to do about This FOIA request. He can't duck -- he can't duck This FOIA request. This FOIA request's his documents, he should say -- he should have said already he wants them released if he is an open, fair, wonderful man Supreme Court justice that he's trying to portray himself to be.

4. Kelly Graves:

   We don't have one player that's played in front of the Duck fans.

5. Steven Mnuchin:

   I would encourage Congress, particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck, let’s try to get something done.