| Main Entry: | totter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move falteringly |
Synonyms: |
blunder, careen, dodder, falter, flounder, hesitate, lurch, quake, quiver, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shimmy, slide, slip, stagger, stammer, stumble, sway, teeter, topple, tremble, trip, walk unsteadily, waver, weave, wheel, wobble, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | dodder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shake |
Synonyms: |
quiver, shiver, shudder, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, tremble, wobble |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend; become lower |
Synonyms: |
abate, backslide, be precipitated, break down, buckle, cascade, cave in, collapse, crash, decline, decrease, depreciate, diminish, dip, dive, drag, droop, drop down, dwindle, ease, ebb, flag, flop, fold up, go down, gravitate, hit the dirt, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, recede, regress, relapse, settle, sink, slip, slope, slump, spin, stumble, subside, take a header, tip over, topple, totter, trail, trip, tumble, wane |
Antonyms: |
ascend, climb, go up, rise, scale |
| Main Entry: | falter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stumble, stutter |
Synonyms: |
be undecided, bobble, break, drop the ball, flounder, fluctuate, fluff, halt, hem and haw, hesitate, lurch, quaver, reel, rock, roll, scruple, shake, speak haltingly, stagger, stammer, stub toe, teeter, topple, totter, tremble, trip up, vacillate, waver, whiffle, wobble |
Antonyms: |
continue, endure, maintain, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | flop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall limply, collapse |
Synonyms: |
dangle, droop, drop, flag, flap, flounder, flutter, hang, jerk, lop, quiver, sag, slump, stagger, teeter, topple, toss, totter, tumble, wave, wiggle |
| Main Entry: | hobble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | limp |
Synonyms: |
clump, dodder, falter, halt, hitch, scuff, shuffle, stagger, stumble, totter |
Antonyms: |
go, move, run, walk |
| Main Entry: | limp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk with faltering step |
Synonyms: |
clump, dodder, falter, flag, gimp, halt, hitch, hobble, hop, lag, scuff, shamble, shuffle, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, waddle, walk lamely |
| Main Entry: | linger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | loiter, delay |
Synonyms: |
amble, be dilatory, be long, be tardy, crawl, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drift, falter, fool around, fritter away, goof off, hang around, hang out*, hesitate, hobble, idle, lag, loll, lumber, mope, mosey, plod, poke, procrastinate, put off, putter, remain, saunter, shuffle, sit around, slouch, stagger, stay, stick around, stop, stroll, take one's time, tarry, tool, totter, trail, traipse, trifle, trudge, vacillate, wait, wait around |
Antonyms: |
go, hurry, leave, rush |
| Main Entry: | lurch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move toward with jerk |
Synonyms: |
blunder, bumble, careen, dodge, duck, falter, flounder, heave, jerk, lean, list, move to the side, pitch, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, slide, slip, stagger, stumble, sway, swing, teeter, tilt, toss, totter, wallow, weave, wobble, yaw |
Antonyms: |
retreat |
| Main Entry: | oscillate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change back and forth |
Synonyms: |
be unsteady, dangle, fishtail, flicker, fluctuate, librate, lurch, palpitate, pendulate, pitch, pivot, reel, ripple, rock, roll, seesaw, stagger, sway, swing, switch, swivel, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash, toss, totter, undulate, vacillate, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, waltz, wave, waver, whirl, wiggle, wobble |
| Notes: | oscillate means to be undecided about something or regularly swing from side to side, while osculate means to kiss or to come together - in mathematics it means to have three or more points coincident with |
Antonyms: |
remain, stay |