Dogged vs Dodged - What's the difference?
dogged | dodged |
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
(dodge)
To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
* Coleridge
As verbs the difference between dogged and dodged
is that dogged is (dog) while dodged is (dodge).As an adjective dogged
is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .Adjective
(en adjective)- Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Synonyms
* committed, determined, persistent, steadfast * See alsoDerived terms
* doggedly * doggednessdodged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*dodge
English
Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.