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{"id": "equivocate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "equivocate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "equivocatory", "text": "equivocatory"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the sense \u2018use a word in more than one sense\u2019): from late Latin aequivocat- \u2018called by the same name\u2019, from the verb aequivocare, from aequivocus (see equivocal)"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/equivocate_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026a\u02c8kw\u026av\u0259ke\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself"], "examples": [{"text": "the government have equivocated too often in the past"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0330750.005", "shortDefinitions": ["use ambiguous language so as to conceal truth or avoid committing oneself"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "prevaricate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be evasive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be non-committal"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be vague"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be ambiguous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dodge the issue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "evade the issue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "beat about the bush"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hedge"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hedge one's bets"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fudge the issue"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "equivocate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005018.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "equivocate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "equivocate"}], "word": "equivocate"}
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