Word Meanings - PREVARICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. (more info) walk crookedly, to collude; prae before + varicare to straddle, fr. 1. To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course,

Additional info about word: PREVARICATE

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. (more info) walk crookedly, to collude; prae before + varicare to straddle, fr. 1. 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. He prevaricates with his own understanding. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREVARICATE)

• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• trick
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• dupe
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• inveigle
• Palter
• Shuffle
• trifle
• shift
• dodge
• haggle
• Quibble Shuffle
• evade
• cavil
• equivocate
• Confuse
• interchange
• intershift
• intermix
• derange
• agitate
• quibble
• sophisticate
• mystify
• palter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREVARICATE)

• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to PREVARICATE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• HAGGLE
  To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.