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

  • The enemy formation wavered and broke.
  • ECB will not waver over bond buying conditions.
  • Seoul shares to waver in choppy trading next week.
  • The call also tends to waver up and down with the trill.
  • They waver between bickering and bantering on this journey.
  • The Chasseurs deployed to answer the fire, but began to waver.
  • Instead the cows headed strait for the Israelites and did not waver.
  • The Polish ranks started to waver and the flag of the banner was lost.
  • The government's stance on saccharin has continued to waver ever since.
  • The zealots were confirmed in their faith, the waverers convinced, the disaffected overawed.

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