waver
1to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
to flicker or quiver, as light: A distant beam wavered and then disappeared.
become unsteady; begin to fail or give way: When she heard the news her courage wavered.
to shake or tremble, as the hands or voice: Her voice wavered.
to feel or show doubt, indecision, etc.; vacillate: He wavered in his determination.
(of things) to fluctuate or vary: Prices wavered.
to totter or reel: The earth quaked and the tower wavered.
an act of wavering, fluttering, or vacillating.
Origin of waver
1synonym study For waver
Other words for waver
Other words from waver
- wa·ver·er, noun
- un·wa·vered, adjective
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Origin of waver
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How to use waver in a sentence
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Has Hillary Clinton Salvaged Deal to Bring Chen to U.S. Temporarily? | Howard Kurtz | May 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe leading tendency here is not toward openness: People waver between frank fascism and latent xenophobia.
J. M.G. Le Clézio on His Birthplace | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | April 6, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTHe would waver…all of that is to me a measure of the fact that he was troubled and it is pretty clear what he was troubled by.
But that had no appreciable effect on military performance until the top leadership itself began to waver and retreat.
He steeled himself, for he had had his experience of woman's wiles; and his faith in masculine supremacy as a habit did not waver.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHe was rather gratified than otherwise to hear that Mr. Puffin had begun to waver in his ideas about celibacy.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsLindsay seemed to waver; her glance went near enough to him to show her that his face had a red tinge of embarrassment.
Hilda | Sarah Jeanette DuncanShe drew back from me a little as I came; but her eyes did not waver from mine, and these lured me forward.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonBut now, to my surprise and horror, when I looked into the eye of my monitor, my own eye would not waver nor admit subjection!
The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough
British Dictionary definitions for waver
/ (ˈweɪvə) /
to be irresolute; hesitate between two possibilities
to become unsteady
to fluctuate or vary
to move back and forth or one way and another
(of light) to flicker or flash
the act or an instance of wavering
Origin of waver
1Derived forms of waver
- waverer, noun
- wavering, adjective
- waveringly, adverb
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