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1. Hunting ducks
   - duck hunting
    
2. The act of wetting something by submerging it
   - submersion, immersion, dousing

1. To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
   "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
    
2. Submerge or plunge suddenly
    
3. Immerse into a liquid
   "He ducked into the pool";
   - dip, douse
    
4. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep, finesse

Derived forms: duckings

Type of: avoid, dip, dive, douse, dunk, hunt, hunting, move, plunge, plunk, souse, wetting

Encyclopedia: Ducking