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4. prevail on or
upon persuade, induce, influence, sway, incline, dispose; move, prompt, motivate, stimulate, rouse, inspire; urge, exhort, inportune; bring to bear upon, bear down upon, put the pressure on, press, apply pressure, Inf pressure or high-pressure; convince, convert, wean, win or win over, bring round or around, enlist, make [s.o.] see the light; talk into, sell, sell [s.o.] on, wangle, Inf rope in or into, SI. hook, SI. con; wheedle, cajole, coax, sweet-talk.
prevailing, adj. 1. predominant, preponderant, preponderating, dominant, dominating; ruling, regnant, reigning; preeminent, supreme, chief, principal.
2. prevalent, current. See - prevalent.
3. effective, effectual, telling, moving, affecting, powerful, potent, vigorous, forceful, convincing, persuasive.
prevalence, n. 1. predominance, preponderance, ascendancy. See - predominance.
2. ubiquity, ubiquitousness, omnipresence, universality, catholicity; pervasiveness, diffusiveness; commonness, currency, popularity, acceptance, favor.
prevalent, adj. widespread, extensive, ubiquitous, general, rife, rampant; universal, catholic, world-wide, global, nationwide; generally held, common, commonplace, everyday, conventional, established, usual; present, current, making the rounds, popular, in fashion, in vogue, modern, Inf trendy. See - prevailing (def.
prevaricate, v. 1. lie, equivocate, stretch the truth, be untruthful, be a liar, Inf. tell a story, deviate from the truth; fib, euphemize, shilly-shally, evade, sidestep; dodge, fence, hedge, beat about the bush; elude, shy, weasel, be evasive, evade the truth, shuffle, shift, parry, beg the question, dissemble; fake, counterfeit, Inf fake it, Inf talk a good game; play a double game, play false, hoodwink; pettifog, quibble, cavil, split hairs, mince words, stickle, trifle.
2. falsify, belie, misrepresent, distort or twist the truth, misinform, mislead, construe falsely, put a false construction on, give a false color to; put on, pretend, sham, make-believe, sail under false colors; pervert, distort, strain, warp, twist, slant, color; gild, varnish, gloss, doctor, dress up, embellish, embroider, Inf titivate, Inf talk through one's hat, Inf speak with forked tongue; deceive, lead [s.o.] down or up the garden path, throw [s.o.] off the scent, put [s.o.] on a false scent; drag or draw a red herring across the trail; disguise or mask the truth, conceal or hide the truth, cover up, Inf. deodorize, Inf. whitewash.
3. tell a lie or falsehood, fabricate, invent, manufacture, make up, trump up; hatch, concoct, Inf cook up, Inf make out of whole cloth; exaggerate, hyperbolize, inflate, blow up, puff up; magnify, enlarge on, overkill, carry too far, caricature, travesty, burlesque, make a mockery of the truth; slander, defame, libel, calumniate, traduce; perjure oneself, swear falsely, forswear, lie in one's teeth, lie flatly, speak falsely, bear false witness, lie like a trooper, lie like a rug.
prevarication, n. 1. lie, falsehood, untruth, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, overrefinement, Inf taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, shuffling; pettifoggery, hairsplitting, caviling; fencing, evasiveness, elusiveness; chicanery, pretense, artfulness, guile, Inf flimflammery.
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