NTUMC+ Open Multilingual Wordnet 0.9

00835506-v 'be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information'; V1;

Czech	kličkovat , vytáčet se , vykrucovat se
Chinese (simplified)	敷衍了事 , 支吾 , 狡赖 , 搪塞 , 含糊其词 , 敷衍了事
English	tergiversate ( ⊳ ) , beat around the bush , equivocate ( ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ) , prevaricate ( ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ⊳ ) , palter ( ⊳ )
Italian	GAP! , tergiversare
Japanese	変節+する , 変節

Definitions

Italian: esprimersi in modo equivoco
English: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Japanese: 情報を混乱させる、または留めておくために、意図的にあいまいまたは不明瞭にする

Relations

Hypernym:	misinform
Semantic Field:	communication_v

Verb Frames

Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP;

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