Waver
['weɪvə] or ['wevɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of moving back and forth.
(noun.) someone who communicates by waving.
(verb.) sway to and fro.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Wave, undulate, float, flicker.[2]. Vacillate, hesitate, fluctuate, be in suspense, be undetermined, be unsettled, be in doubt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hesitate, dubitate, halt, fluctuate, vacillate, alternate, scruple,be_undetermined, totter
ANT:Determine, decide, rest, repose, settle
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Examples
- But still, change and waver as they might in the expression they imparted to the music, their resolution to play never faltered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sophia, at Fanny's persuasion, now began to waver. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Nor did the other's frank, clear eyes waver beneath D'Arnot's fixed gaze. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She would not fix any definite time--she still wavered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was evidently in a condition of great suffering, and Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- After all his insistence upon the oneness of God, he wavered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When Muhammad wavered, Abu Bekr sustained him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So far as I know--and I believe his honest heart was transparent to me--he never wavered again, in his solemn certainty of finding her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There is not a shadow of wavering. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She cannot choose for herself to be strong in this fancy, wavering in that, and weak in the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Let them rise, said a voice behind us; a thin, wavering voice, yet one that had evidently been accustomed to command for many years. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The shock of this retort had the effect of crystallizing Selden's wavering intentions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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