dead-end vs dodge

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

dodge

verb
  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

How often have the words dead-end and dodge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )