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To become weaker or less certain. To move back and forth.

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Usage examples (2)
  • Never waver in your resolve to do your very best work.
  • It has its drawback in the spread of what we feel as a debasing 'vulgarity', but the general balance is overwhelmingly on the side of good.
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  • Another word that sounds like waver which means to shift or move back and forth, is waive" which is a paper showing the giving up of a right.
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