intransitive. To use a word in more than one application or sense; to use words of double meaning; to deal in ambiguities. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > play with words, equivocate [verb (intransitive)] (3) equivocate1609 intransitive. To use a word in more than one application or sense; to use words of double meaning; to deal in ambiguities. Obsolete. straddle1838 U.S. colloquial. ‘To occupy or take up an equivocal position in regard to; to appear to favour both sides of’. Also intransitive and absol. (Cent.… weasel1956 intransitive. To equivocate or prevaricate, to use weasel words. |
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