Usually means: Avoid telling the truth directly.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prevaricate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prevaricate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prevaricate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prevaricate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prevaricate: Vocabulary.com
  6. prevaricate: Wordnik
  7. prevaricate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prevaricate: Wiktionary
  9. prevaricate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prevaricate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prevaricate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prevaricate, prevaricate: Dictionary.com
  13. Prevaricate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. prevaricate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. prevaricate: Rhymezone
  16. Prevaricate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. prevaricate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. prevaricate: Free Dictionary
  19. prevaricate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. prevaricate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. prevaricate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. prevaricate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevaricate: Legal dictionary

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  1. prevaricate: Encyclopedia

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  2. prevaricate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevaricate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevaricate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prevariacting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
verb:  (intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
verb:  (law, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

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