- 2. Uncertain, doubtful, dubious, indeterminate.
Equivocate, v. n. Quibble, shuffle, dodge, fence, palter, evade the truth, use equivocal expressions (for the sake of deception). See prevaricate.
Equivocation, n.
- 1. Quibbling, prevarication, evasion, shuffling, paltering, ambiguity of speech.
- 2. Quibble, equivoque, double meaning.
Equivoque, Equivoke, n. Ambiguous expression, quibble, equivocation, equivocal expression, double meaning, double-entendre (in good sense).
Era, n.
- 1. Series or succession of years (marked by any administration or dispensation).
- 2. Epoch, period, date, age, period of time.
- 3. Point of time (from which dates are reckoned), origin of dates, chronological starting-point.
Eradicate, v. a.
- 1. Extirpate, uproot, root out, pull up by the roots.
- 2. Destory, exterminate, annihilate.
Eradication, n.
- 1. Extirpation, uprooting, rooting out.
- 2. Extermination, destruction, annihilation, excision.
Erase, v. a. Efface, obliterate, expunge, cancel, blot, scratch out, scrape out, rub out, blot out, rase (obsolescent).
Erasure, n. Obliteration, effacing, expunging, cancellation, cancelling, scratching out, rasure (obsolescent).
Ere, ad. (Poetical.) Before, sooner than.
Ere, prep. (Poetical.) Before, prior to.
Erebus, n. [L] (Myth.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, the under-world, the world of the dead, the grave, the abyss, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below, region of darkness, Pluto’s realms, the Plutonian shore.