waver
/ˈweɪvəɹ/ verb C1- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter. · Flowers wavered in the breeze.
- To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way. · Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble. · His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
Plural waver · He/she/it wavers · Past wavered · Past participle wavered · -ing form wavering
Verb forms
- Base form
- waver
- He/she/it
- wavers
- Past
- wavered
- Past participle
- wavered
- -ing form
- wavering
From the library
Tell her that the loyalty she prizes so much has never wavered.
Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly translucent in their wavering shadows.
Anne looked at the wicked green depths below her, wavering with long, oily shadows, and shivered.
But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.
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