Vacillate synonyms
văs'ə-lāt'
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To waver is to sway back and forth, show doubt, or to become uncertain in your opinion or planned course of action.
To incline or bend to one side; veer:
To say hesitantly or timidly
(Intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
totter (related)
To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.
hesitate (related)
To stop because of indecision; pause or delay in acting, choosing, or deciding because of feeling unsure; waver
pause (related)
(Intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
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To flutter is defined as to quickly flap wings, vibrate or tremble.
To mumble and procrastinate in one's speech, especially with a reply to a hard question or with voicing a decision on a topical matter; to evade a question, giving vague answers; to equivocate.
(Intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
To excite or cause strong feeling in, as by playing rock music.
To play on a seesaw.
To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
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Teeter is defined as to wobble in a shaky way, or to change back and forth between two sides of an opinion.
whiffle
(Intransitive) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
Wobble is defined as to move or cause to move in an unsteady way, to have your voice quiver, or to be unable to commit to a course of action.
remain (antonym)
To endure or persist:
To work (details, incidents, etc.) into a story, poem, etc.
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To head (a ship or aircraft) toward each of the points of the compass in order to determine compass error resulting from deviation
repetition (related)
To petition again.
To cause to vary irregularly.
To cause to hover:
To progress in a given direction while moving back and forth rapidly:
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strained-relations (related)
reel (related)
To recover by winding on a reel:
To occur in a successive manner:
The definition of dither is to be confused.
change (related)
To transfer from (one conveyance) to another:
vacillation (related)
making-distinctions (related)
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To waste (time) by idling:
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