waver

IPA: wˈeɪvɝ

noun

  • An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
  • Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
  • Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
  • A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
  • (UK, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
  • A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.

verb

  • (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
  • (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
  • (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
  • (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
  • (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
  • (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
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Examples of "waver" in Sentences

  • Kamuk did not hesitate, nor did his expression waver from seriousness.
  • This is something I kind of waver on sometimes, but for now I agree with
  • I jest of course but it points out how we waver from the original intent.
  • On Friday night, the first night of Istanbul talks, Iranian negotiators seemed to "waver"
  • Rather, linguists compare patterns of sound change, which do not waver and are thus highly predictable.
  • Yet the Founding Fathers did not waver from the idea that justice had to be based on the evidence and that defendants were owed a fair trial based on what the prosecution could prove.
  • Back in February, Shays even voted against a non-binding resolution condeming the surge -- even though during the 2006 campaign he'd allegedly started to "waver" in his support for Bush.
  • One can only hope that they stand by these principles and do not waver in response to the allure of ongoing or improving deals with Algerian oil companies at the sacrifice of democratic ideals.
  • The rest of the country either doesn't know Hagel from the local plumber, or they do know Hagel and they're part of the angry cadre of morons who will never "waver" in their support for the Iraq mess.

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