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1. Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
   - hesitate, waffle, balk, baulk [Brit]
    
2. Be unsure or weak
   - falter
    
3. Move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
   - falter
    
4. Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
   - fluctuate, vacillate
    
5. Move back and forth very rapidly
   - flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver
    
6. Sway to and fro
   - weave
    
7. Give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
   - quaver

1. Someone who communicates by waving
    
2. The act of pausing uncertainly
   - hesitation, falter, faltering
    
3. The act of moving back and forth
   - flutter, flicker

Sounds like: waiver

Derived forms: wavering, wavers, wavered

See also: wave, waverer, wavering

Type of: communicator, motility, motion, move, move back and forth, movement, pause, sound, sway, swing, vocalise [Brit], vocalize, voice

Encyclopedia: Waver