Word Finder - ducking

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To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

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To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

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To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.

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To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

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To bow.

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To evade doing something.

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To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.

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To enter a place for a short moment.

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I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?

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The action of the verb to duck.

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An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).

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They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.

This ducking was the very thing he needed.

He walked around to the driver's side, ducking his head as he folded his long frame into the car.

Instead of ducking into the ladies' room, she pushed through the back entrance, which emptied out into a dark, rainy alley.

They're acting out some bizarre kid's story for the cancer kids, Han said, ducking his head into the office.

She swung the boulder up, ducking as it slapped the side of the cliff just short of the ledge and fell back to her.

Evelyn was the queen of handling crowds, but Kiera could think of nothing more than ducking into a safe corner and staying there with her back to the wall.

In 1301 his grandson and namesake granted to East Looe a market and fair, view of frank pledge, ducking stool and pillory and assize of bread and ale.

Tammy regarded her suspiciously, ducking her head shyly.

Can't you just picture them swimming around on that pond, ducking their heads gracefully to feed.

She went to him, ducking out of the paths of a few Guardians.

Ducking her head, she buried her face in the nape of his neck again.

Jenn stumbled forward and then ran, jumping over fallen trees and ducking flying debris.

He moved swiftly, ducking down and grabbing her ankle.

She turned the wooden latch and threw the door open, ducking as a chicken flew over her head.

The Grey God pulled his own power and used it to deflect, ducking away from the sizzling strike meant to rip him apart.

At my table declarer should, at the point already reached, try a low club from hand, ducking in dummy.

Three years later, the debtor is still ducking and diving, still has not satisfied the judgment.

We do not know where the ducking stool was located in the parish.

This is new to us and it is rough going, the side wash gives the hands a ducking in rolling surf.

But 7E, very sensibly, remained on her perch, ducking as 08's outstretched talons whistled past again and again.

At the start Brian got away with ducking into a sagging line to start cleanly at the pin end with Kate trapped close behind.

A side street, ducking off the main road by the tube station quaintly cobbled, dingy.

If you control a sprite that is an actual character, then designers must create a number of images that can signify if you are running left, right, jumping, ducking, and standing still.

She tucked the small box into her jeans pocket and covered the bulge with her sweater, ducking into the bathroom to hide it before rejoining Ully for their small lunch.

Some horses, good performers over any description of fence, will not jump water under any circumstances; while the chance of a ducking deters many from riding at it; and, however bold the horse may be, he will soon refuse water if his rider be perpetually in two minds when approaching it.

At Oxford his behaviour procured him a ducking in the Cherwell, and a wrecking of his rooms, but the cult spread among certain sections of society to such an extent that languishing attitudes, "too-too" costumes and "aestheticism" generally became a recognized pose.