| verb | surround so as to force to give up “The Turks besieged Vienna” |
| verb | beat through cleverness and wit “I beat the traffic” |
| verb | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) “He dodged the issue” |
| besieger | noun | an enemy who lays siege to your position |
| beatable | adjective | susceptible to being defeated |
| hedge | noun | an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement |
| hedger | noun | a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer |
| hedging | noun | an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement |
| evasion | noun | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do |
| circumvention | noun | the act of evading by going around |
| dodge | noun | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
| dodger | noun | a shifty deceptive person |
| dodging | noun | deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening |