BEAT AROUND THE BUSH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

Synonyms:

beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "beat around the bush" is one way to...):

misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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