waver
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
Flowers wavered in the breeze.
- 2.
(dated, intransitive)To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
- 3.
(archaic, intransitive)To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
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(figuratively, intransitive)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.
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(figuratively, intransitive)To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
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(figuratively, intransitive)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.
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(figuratively, intransitive)Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
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(figuratively, intransitive)Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- 9.
(intransitive, obsolete)Followed by from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
- 10.
(figuratively, intransitive, obsolete)Of the wits: to become confused or unsteady; to reel.
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(obsolete, transitive)To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.
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(obsolete, transitive)To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also (rare), to weaken in resolve due to (something).
Danh từ
noun- 1.
An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- 2.
(figuratively)A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- 3.
(figuratively)A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- 4.
One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.
Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
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A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
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A tool used to make hair wavy.
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(historical)(printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
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(obsolete)Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).
Đồng nghĩa: waverer
- 9.
(dated, dialectal)(obsolete except UK, dialectal, dated) A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
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ine-pro The verb is derived from Middle English waveren, and then possibly: