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Equivocate
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What's The Definition Of Equivocate?
[v] be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synonyms | Synonyms for Equivocate: palter | prevaricate | tergiversate Related Terms | Find terms related to Equivocate: about the bush | alternate | around the bush | avoid | back and fill | be untruthful | beat about | beat around | beg the question | bicker | boggle | cavil | change | choplogic | deceive | dither | dodge | double-talk | draw the longbow | duck | elude | escape | eschew | evade | evade the issue | exaggerate | falsify | fence | fib | fluctuate | hedge | hem and haw | hum and haw | lie | lie flatly | mince the truth | mince words | mislead | mystify | nitpick | obscure | oscillate | palter | parry | pendulate | pick nits | prevaricate | pull away | pull back | pussyfoot | put off | quibble | recoil | sheer off | shift | shift off | shilly-shally | shrink | shuffle | shy | shy away | shy off | sidestep | skirt | speak falsely | split hairs | step aside | story | stretch the truth | swerve | teeter | tell a lie | tergiversate | totter | vacillate | vary | waffle | ward off | waver | weasel | wobble See Also | misinform | mislead Equivocate In Webster's Dictionary \E*quiv"o*cate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Equivocated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Equivocating}.] [L. aequivocatus, p. p. of
aequivocari to be called by the same name, fr. L. aequivocus:
cf. F. ['e]quivoquer. See {Equivocal}, a.]
To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to
express one's opinions in terms which admit of different
senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions
with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of
duplicity.
All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed
he meant to equivocate. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
Syn: To prevaricate; evade; shuffle; quibble. See
{Prevaricate}.
\E*quiv"o*cate\, v. t. To render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. --Sir G. Buck. |
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