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▸ 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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