MEANING
1. To hesitate or become less firm in a decision, belief, or purpose.
2. To move, flicker, or vary in an unsteady way.
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Words that belong together
- waver in resolve
- never waver
- waver between options
On the page
Her resolve began to waver.
He did not waver in his support.
She wavered between the two routes.
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Word forms
- Base
- waver
- Past tense
- wavered
- Past participle
- wavered
- Present participle
- wavering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- waver
- Present continuous
- am/is/are wavering
- Present perfect
- have/has wavered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been wavering
- Past
- wavered
- Past continuous
- was/were wavering
- Past perfect
- had wavered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been wavering
- Future
- will waver
- Future continuous
- will be wavering
- Future perfect
- will have wavered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been wavering
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: waver; wavers; wavered; wavered; wavering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: wavers.
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