prevaricate
/prɪˈvarɪkeɪt//prɪˈværɪkeɪt/
- vi.
- 支吾其辞，搪塞
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
prevaricate
词源说明
Borrowed from Latin praevāricātus, perfect active participle of praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; to play a false or double part”), from prae- + vāricō (“to stand with feet apart, straddle”), from vāricus (“with feet spread apart”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
释义
动词verb
- 1transitive, intransitive, obsoleteTo deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
- 2intransitiveTo speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
- 3(intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer