Definitions for waver

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waver wa·ver

Spelling: [wey-ver]

IPA: /ˈweɪ vər/

Waver is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in waver (aervw).

Definitions for waver

noun

1. an act of wavering, fluttering, or vacillating.
2. a person who waves or causes something to wave:
3. a person who specializes in waving hair.
4. something, as a curling iron, used for waving hair.

verb (used without object)

1. to sway to and fro; flutter:
2. to flicker or quiver, as light:
3. become unsteady; begin to fail or give way:
4. to shake or tremble, as the hands or voice:
5. to feel or show doubt, indecision, etc.; vacillate:
6. (of things) to fluctuate or vary:
7. to totter or reel:

Origin of waver

1275-1325; Middle English (see wave, -er⁶); cognate with dialectal German wabern to move about, Old Norse vafra to toddle

Examples for waver

Grant did not even look at Phoebe, but his purpose seemed to waver in spite of himself.

John Baxter continued to waver between this world and the next.

The outlaw allowed his eyes to waver and he fell with a bullet-hole in his forehead.

She seemed to waver, but stood—speechless, as if waiting for more.

But no sooner was the 40-year-old activist out of U.S. hands than he began to waver.

He had settled opinions about Mrs. Roberts now, from which he would not be likely to waver.

Despite the agony, his gaze did not waver from the video set across the room.

Once there was a waver in the line, such as precedes a rush.

But that had no appreciable effect on military performance until the top leadership itself began to waver and retreat.

But the resolution which had never failed him before began now to waver.