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- English Word Pretypifying Definition of Pretypify
- English Word Pretzel Definition A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
- English Word Prevail Definition To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.
- English Word Prevail Definition To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.
- English Word Prevail Definition To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.
- English Word Prevailed Definition of Prevail
- English Word Prevailing Definition of Prevail
- English Word Prevailing Definition Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
- English Word Prevailing Definition Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
- English Word Prevailingly Definition So as to prevail.
- English Word Prevailment Definition Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy.
- English Word Prevalence Definition The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
- English Word Prevalency Definition See Prevalence.
- English Word Prevalent Definition Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
- English Word Prevalent Definition Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
- English Word Prevalently Definition In a prevalent manner.
- English Word Prevaricate Definition To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
- English Word Prevaricate Definition To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- English Word Prevaricate Definition To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- English Word Prevaricate Definition To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
- English Word Prevaricated Definition of Prevaricate
- English Word Prevaricating Definition of Prevaricate
- English Word Prevarication Definition The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
- English Word Prevarication Definition A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- English Word Prevarication Definition The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- English Word Prevarication Definition A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- English Word Prevaricator Definition One who prevaricates.
- English Word Prevaricator Definition A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
- English Word Prevaricator Definition One who betrays or abuses a trust.
- English Word Preve Definition To prove.