TERGIVERSATED Synonyms

• small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

• (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

• flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

• a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

• to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

• submerge or plunge suddenly

• dip into a liquid

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

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

• 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 event in which something is displaced without rotation

• a qualitative change

• the time period during which you are at work

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• the act of moving from one place to another

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time

• the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters

• a woman's sleeveless undergarment

• a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

• make a shift in or exchange of

• change place or direction

• move around

• move very slightly

• move from one setting or context to another

• change in quality

• move and exchange for another

• move sideways or in an unsteady way

• move abruptly

• use a shift key on a keyboard

• change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change

• change gears

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• 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

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

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

• control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure

• railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock

• a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment

• a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other

• the act of changing one thing or position for another

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• exchange or give (something) in exchange for

• lay aside, abandon, or leave for another

• make a shift in or exchange of

• cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation

• flog with or as if with a flexible rod

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

• move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern

• someone who communicates by waving

• the act of pausing uncertainly

• the act of moving back and forth

• pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

• be unsure or weak

• move hesitatingly, as if about to give way

• move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern

• move back and forth very rapidly

• sway from side to side

• give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

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

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

• abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

• abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

• (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment

• arid land with little or no vegetation

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

• leave behind

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

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