Thesaurus: waver
To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
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Definitions
- v. i. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
- v. i. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
- v. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
- n. someone who communicates by waving
- n. the act of pausing uncertainly
- n. the act of moving back and forth
- v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- v. be unsure or weak
- v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- v. move back and forth very rapidly
- v. sway from side to side