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Verb: tergiversate
  1. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
    - beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, palter, beat about the bush, weasel
     
  2. Abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
    - apostatize, apostatise [Brit]

Derived forms: tergiversating, tergiversates, tergiversated

See also: tergiversation

Type of: disinform, disown, misinform, mislead, renounce, repudiate