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tergiversate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb tergiversate has 2 senses
- tergiversate(v = verb.communication) beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate - be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; Array is one way to misinform, mislead
- tergiversate(v = verb.communication) apostatise, apostatize - abandon one's beliefs or allegiances; Array is one way to disown, renounce, repudiate
Derived form noun tergiversation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun tergiversation2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
tergiversate, v. i. [L. tergiversatus, p. p. of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse.].
To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. Bailey. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tergiversate, v.intr.
1 be apostate; change one's party or principles.
2 equivocate; make conflicting or evasive statements.
3 turn one's back on something.
1 be apostate; change one's party or principles.
2 equivocate; make conflicting or evasive statements.
3 turn one's back on something.
Derivative
tergiversation n. tergiversator n.
Etymology
L tergiversari turn one's back f. tergum back + vertere vers- turn
THESAURUS
tergiversate
alternate, apostatize, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, come round, desert, dither, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, fluctuate, have second thoughts, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, oscillate, palter, parry, pendulate, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, rat, renounce, repudiate, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, teeter, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waffle, waver, weasel, wheel, wobble
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