Thesaurus: vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
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Definitions
- v. t. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
- v. t. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
- v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- 1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
- v:100 v be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action v move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern