- ducking, duck hunting - hunting ducks
--1 is a kind of hunt, hunting
- submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing - the act of wetting something by submerging it
--2 is a kind of wetting
Derived forms: verb duck3, verb duck2
- 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
- duck - submerge or plunge suddenly
--2 is one way to dive, plunge, plunk
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun ducking2
The airplane is sure to duck
- dip, douse, duck - dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
--3 is one way to dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun ducking2
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- 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
- duck - submerge or plunge suddenly