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

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  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 (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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