intransitive. To bend, flinch, give way; to waver, vacillate. Obsolete.

Of persons, their sentiments, etc.: To exhibit doubt or indecision; to change or vary; to fluctuate or vacillate (between); to falter in resolution…

intransitive. To undergo change, vary; (in later use) spec. to swerve or depart from what is right or true; to waver.

figurative. Of a person: To lose firmness. ? Obsolete.

To change from one state, condition, or direction to another; to alter, shift about, give way.

figurative. To be unsteady, waver. Obsolete.

To waver, lose steadfastness; to flinch, hesitate in action from lack of courage or resolution. Also of courage, hopes, resolve: To give way, flag.

Of a person: To shift about in mind; to waver. Obsolete.

to waver as, like, with the wind. Cf. 3b.

intransitive. figurative. Of the mind, thoughts, etc.: to move from one thing to another; to cover or range over many subjects unsystematically…

To move unsteadily to and fro like an object on the surface of a liquid; to oscillate, undulate; figurative to vacillate, waver. Obsolete.

figurative. ‘To waver, to flinch’ (Jamieson).

give ground figurative. To yield; to relax effort.

(originally U.S.) To take a less firm attitude, to recede from a standpoint, to give way.

To relax in purpose.