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"Rise and fall"

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈflʌkt͡ʃu.eɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aceflttuuStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (FLUCTUATE).

Definitions

  1. To rise and fall or vary irregularly.

Word origin

First attested in the 1630'; borrowed from Latin flūctuātus, perfect passive participle of flūctuō (“(of the sea) to surge, swell; (of man) to waver, fluctuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • One of them, at great Expence of Algebra, proves, that the Motes, which in Scotomias, we seem to have in our Eyes, are not real Bodies fluctuating in them.
  • I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.

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