Dictionary Entry
prevaricate
prevaricate is a 11-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
- 2intransitive verb
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- 3intransitive verb
To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- 4transitive verb
To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
- 5verb
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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