vacillare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to sway, to totter, to stagger along
  2. (intransitive) to flicker
  3. (intransitive) to waver, to vacillate
  4. (figuratively, intransitive) to fade, to diminish (e.g. of one's vision, of hopes)
  5. (figuratively, intransitive) to falter (e.g. of an institution)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
va‧cil‧là‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/va.t͡ʃilˈla.re/
Etymology

From Latin vacillāre.

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