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Usually means: Change opinion repeatedly; be evasive.
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  1. tergiversate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tergiversate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tergiversate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tergiversate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tergiversate: Vocabulary.com
  6. tergiversate: Wordnik
  7. tergiversate: Wiktionary
  8. tergiversate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tergiversate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tergiversate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tergiversate: Dictionary.com
  12. Tergiversate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tergiversate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tergiversate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tergiversate: Rhymezone
  16. Tergiversate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tergiversate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tergiversate: Free Dictionary
  19. tergiversate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tergiversate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Tergiversate: World Wide Words

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  1. tergiversate: Legal dictionary

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  1. tergiversate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tergiversate)

verb:  (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.

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