Verb

(straf)

To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.

(video games) to sidestep; to move sideways without turning. A core mechanic of most first-person shooters.

* 2001 , Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games

If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.

* 2007 , Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide

A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.

Verb

(dodg)

To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.

He dodged traffic crossing the street.

(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.

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(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

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.