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Definition: Tergiversate |
TergiversateVerb1. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information. 2. Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tergiversate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Etymology: Tergiversate \Ter"gi*ver*sate\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression tergiversatus, past participle of tergiversari to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back versare, freq. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]. (references) |
Synonyms: TergiversateSynonyms: apostatise (v), apostatize (v), equivocate (v), palter (v), prevaricate (v). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "tergiversate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, wander), jam tradhtar. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам ренегат (renegade), усуквам (convolve, equivocate, lay, palter, strand, throw, twist), меня позициите си, правя противоречиви изказвания, извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shift, shuffle, sophisticate, twist, wangle, whiffle). (various references) | |
Czech | vytáèet se (fence, hedge one's bets, shuffle, stall, wriggle out of), vymlouvat se. (various references) | |
German | sich widersprechen (contradict oneself). (various references) | |
Greek | υπεκφεύγω (dodge, elude, evade, fudge, palter, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shuffle, shun), αντιφάσκω (contradict). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערוק (bolt, desert, escape, flee, rat, renegade), ל"יות "פכפך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kertel (prevaricate, to palter, to prevaricate, to pussyfoot, to shuffle, to tergiversate). (various references) | |
Italian | disdirsi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ergiversatetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tergiversar (prevaricate, shuffle), virar as costas, virar a casaca, usar de evasivas, renegar (abnegate, deny, disown, forswear, recant), apostatar (apostatize). (various references) | |
Russian | увертываться (dodge, equivocate, jink), быть отступником. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrdati (hedge, jink, prevaricate, stagger, wriggle). (various references) | |
Spanish | tergiversar (distort, misconstrue, prevaricate, shift). (various references) | |
Swedish | göra undanflykter (dodge). (various references) | |
Turkish | parti değiştirmek (change one's allegiance, rat), kaçamaklı konuşmak (equivocate), din değiştirmek (vert). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tergiversate": tergiversated, tergiversates. (additional references) | |
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"Tergiversate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trivariate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tergiversate" (pronounced 'Ter"gi*ver*sate'): Cassate, Conquassate, insensate, Linearensate, Manganesate, Ptenoglossate, Pulsate, Vagissate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-r-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: reiterates. | |
-3 letters: aigrettes, reiterate, retargets, retrieves, serviette, vegetates, veritates. | |
-4 letters: aigrette, ariettes, arrestee, arteries, eagerest, eateries, egestive, ergative, estivate, etageres, greasier, greatest, greeters, grievers, grisette, iterates, register, regrates, regreets, resetter, restrive, retarget, retirees, retreats, retrieve, reveries, riveters, steerage, straiter, tarriest, teariest, tergites, traverse, treaters, treaties, treatise, vegetate, vegetist, virgates. | |
-5 letters: aeriest, aigrets, ariette, arrives. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-r-r-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: tergiversated, tergiversates. | |
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