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Verb tergiversate has 2 senses
  1. beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter - be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
    --1 is one way to misinform, mislead
    Derived form: noun tergiversation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate - abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
    --2 is one way to renounce, repudiate
    Derived form: noun tergiversation2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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