PREVARICATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does prevaricate mean? • PREVARICATE (verb)
The verb PREVARICATE has 1 sense:
1. be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Familiarity information: PREVARICATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PREVARICATE (verb)
Meaning:
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate
Hypernyms (to "prevaricate" is one way to...):
misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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