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- Prevaricate - v. i. - To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
- Prevaricate - v. i. - To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- Prevaricate - v. i. - To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- Prevaricate - v. t. - To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
- Prevaricated - imp. & p. p. - of Prevaricate