EQUIVOCATE Synonyms

• describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of

• give to understand

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• a quick evasive movement

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

• move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• escape, either physically or mentally

• practice evasion

• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• the act of mixing cards haphazardly

• walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

• walk by dragging one's feet

• move about, move back and forth

• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information