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Word entry · 5 letters

waver

Best crossword clue

"Hesitate or fluctuate"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈweɪvə/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aervwStarts with WEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of moving back and forth

Word origin

both from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Doublet of wave.

Used in a sentence

  • Flowers wavered in the breeze.
  • The byrdes fliyng and wauoring in the ayer, in the ſtede of houſes haue neſtes to reſt them in. But the ſonne of man ſo is deſtitute of all ſuccours of this worlde, that he hath no place to laye his head in.
  • [B]y the red and dusky light of the torches, he could discern a figure wavering and struggling as it hung suspended above the heads of the multitude.

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