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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