Usually means: Avoided the truth; spoke evasively.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. prevaricated: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevaricated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prevaricated: Vocabulary.com
  4. prevaricated: Wordnik
  5. prevaricated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prevaricated: Wiktionary
  7. Prevaricated, prevaricated: Dictionary.com
  8. Prevaricated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Prevaricated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. prevaricated: FreeDictionary.org
  11. prevaricated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevaricated: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevaricated: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prevaricate)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
verb:  (intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
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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