0 past simple and past participle of duck
1 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, especially to avoid being hit:
None of the justices "ducked" both of these claims - three of them decided against our position on the first and five on the second.
The task was ducked, with only a couple of trite pages (pp. 164-5) on temptation, fear, contradictions, and cultural assumptions.
Three times she dodged and ducked the question.
We believe that we could consolidate the question so that the question of tax is not ducked.
Will he acknowledge that the question that he has ducked is extremely important?
He ducked and weaved and refused to answer the question, leaving great suspicion in the minds of all who heard him.
Thirdly, we come to one of the most serious arguments—one that should not be ducked—against capital punishment, and that is the possibility of making mistakes.
There is a choice here, and it is not one that can be ducked.
