History
History
Synonyms
UK
US
Meaning:
depart

to go away (from a place)

leave, retreat

evade

to stay out of the way of (a bad person or thing)

get away from

prevaricate

to make untrue or partly untrue statement (to avoid telling the (whole) truth)

deceive; stretch the truth

renounce

to declare formally that one will no longer have anything to do with (a person, belief etc)

abandon, reject

repudiate

to refuse to accept or acknowledge (something); to refuse to pay (a debt)

reject; turn one's back on

TERGIVERSATE as in Wiktionary
TERGIVERSATE as in Wikipedia