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AH020387 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Falter

'Falter' means 'to hesitate' or 'to waver back and forth'?
  

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It is closer to hesitate or nearly fall. To falter is to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop or to move awkwardly as if you might fall. The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.

— LouiseT

  • It is closer to hesitate or nearly fall.
  • To falter is to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop or to move awkwardly as if you might fall.
  • The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.
  • The nurse saw him falter and made him lean on her.
  • Her friends never faltered in their belief in her.
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It is closer to hesitate or nearly fall. To falter is to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop or to move awkwardly as if you might fall.


The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.

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Thanks, and by 'hesitate' do you mean 'delay' or 'be uncertain'?
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