支吾
Meanings
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- 1.to resist
- 2.to deal with
- 1.to respond evasively or vaguely
- 2.to elude
- 3.to stall
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Wiktionary
- 1.to falter; to prevaricate; to equivocate
- 2.to deal with a person just for the occasion
- 3.to prop up; to support
- 4.to resist; to defy; to oppose
- 5.to handle
- 6.to divert oneself from loneliness
- 7.to hesitate
- 8.in a predicament
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Etymology
The semantic development was “to support > to resist; to defy > to cope with; to deal with > to (fail to) resist > to stall off; to boggle > to falter; to equivocate”. All other senses are basically obsolete in the modern language.
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