cheat vs dodge

cheat

verb
  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

noun
  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. 

  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. 

  • Someone who cheats. 

  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. 

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

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