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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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  1. 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.
  2. v. i. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
  3. v. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
  4. n. someone who communicates by waving
  5. n. the act of pausing uncertainly
  6. n. the act of moving back and forth
  7. v. pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  8. v. be unsure or weak
  9. v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
  10. v. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
  11. v. move back and forth very rapidly
  12. v. sway from side to side