Another word for waver
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Verb
To move back and forth or from side to side, as if about to fall
- To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side.
- To tremble or quaver:
- To waver or vacillate in one's opinions or feelings.
- To make (cloth) by interlacing the threads of the weft and the warp on a loom.
- To interlace (threads, for example) into cloth.
- To construct by interlacing or interweaving strips or strands of material:
- To be unable to choose between different courses of action or opinions; waver:
- To change between one state and another; fluctuate:
- To sway from one side to the other.
- To sway as if about to fall.
- To appear about to collapse:
- To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.
- To move or sway unsteadily or unsurely; totter.
- To alternate, as between opposing attitudes or positions; vacillate.
- To be close to or in danger of failure or ruin:
- To swing back and forth or to and fro.
- To incline or bend to one side; veer:
- To incline toward change, as in opinion or feeling:
See also:To be irresolute in acting or doing
- To move or rotate with an uneven or rocking motion or unsteadily from side to side.
- To tremble or quaver:
- To waver or vacillate in one's opinions or feelings.
- To be unable to choose between different courses of action or opinions; waver:
- To change between one state and another; fluctuate:
- To sway from one side to the other.
- To move or stand unsteadily, as if under a great weight; totter.
- To cause to totter, sway, or reel:
- To astonish, shock, or overwhelm:
- To procrastinate.
- To be unable to come to a decision; vacillate.
- To spend time on insignificant things; dawdle.
- To cease or suspend an action temporarily:
- To hesitate:
- To linger; tarry:
- To pause or wait in uncertainty:
- To be slow to act, speak, or decide:
- To be reluctant:
- A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one:
- To cause to stop:
- To stop; pause:
- To be unsteady in purpose or action, as from loss of courage or confidence; waver:
- To speak hesitatingly; stammer:
- To move unsteadily or haltingly; stumble:
- A state of indecisive agitation.
- To be nervously irresolute in acting or doing.
See also:To change one's attitudes or policies, for example
- To be unable to choose between different courses of action or opinions; waver:
- To change between one state and another; fluctuate:
- To sway from one side to the other.
- To move back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above.
- To hit at something with a sweeping motion of the arm:
- To move laterally or in a curve:
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Another word for waver
Verb
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- To move or stand unsteadily, as if under a great weight; totter.
- To cause to totter, sway, or reel:
- To astonish, shock, or overwhelm:
- To cease or suspend an action temporarily:
- To hesitate:
- To linger; tarry:
- (idiomatic) (US) To discuss, deliberate, or contemplate rather than taking action or making up one's mind.
- 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.
- To sway as if about to fall.
- To appear about to collapse:
- To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.
- To move or sway unsteadily or unsurely; totter.
- To alternate, as between opposing attitudes or positions; vacillate.
- To be close to or in danger of failure or ruin:
- A device, such as a cylinder, spool, or frame, that turns on an axis and is used for winding and storing rope, tape, film, or other flexible materials.
- A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod to let out or wind up the line.
- The quantity of wire, film, or other material wound on one reel.
- Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional:
- Arising from or marked by careful consideration:
- Unhurried and careful:
- A long plank balanced on a central fulcrum so that with a person riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down.
- The act or game of riding a seesaw.
- A back-and-forth or up-and-down movement.
- to waste time in hesitation or vacillation; loiter or dawdle
- To pause or wait in uncertainty:
- To be slow to act, speak, or decide:
- To be reluctant:
- To be unable to choose between different courses of action or opinions; waver:
- To change between one state and another; fluctuate:
- To sway from one side to the other.
- To vary irregularly, especially in amount:
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