waververb [ I ]
uk/ˈweɪ.vər/us/ˈweɪ.vɚ/to lose strength, determination, or purpose, especially temporarily:
I'm afraid my concentration began to waver as lunch approached.
He has never wavered in his support for the leader.
If you waver between two possibilities, you cannot decide which of them to choose or you keep choosing one way and then the other:
"What are you going to have?" "Er, I'm wavering between the soup and the mushroom quiche."
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Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- adulterate
- attenuate
- attrition
- blow over
- blunt
- deflate
- dial
- dim
- emasculate
- flagging
- jelly
- keep sb down
- knock/take the stuffing out of sb/sth idiom
- muffle
- neutralize
- pine
- sag
- shake
- wither on the vine idiom
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Doubt & ambivalence
wavering
adjective uk/ˈweɪ.vər.ɪŋ/us/ˈweɪ.vɚ.ɪŋ/
It's the party 's last attempt to persuade some of the nation's wavering voters to support them .