avoid vs dodge

avoid

verb
  • To stay out of the way of (something harmful). 

  • To try not to do something or to have something happen 

  • to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from 

  • To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun 

  • To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract). 

  • To defeat or evade; to invalidate. 

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 avoid and dodge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )