Prevaricates vs Prevaricated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between prevaricates and prevaricated

is that prevaricates is (prevaricate) while prevaricated is (prevaricate).

(head)

(prevaricate)

* (archaic)

(prevaricat)

(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).

To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.

The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.

(legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

(legal, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

* prevarication * prevaricator

(head)

(prevaricate)