All 6 Uses
waver
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Jones was the sort who categorized his tapes by their flaws, a ragged piano tempo, a botched flute, a wavering French horn.†
Chpt 5. *wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- The captain had wavered, wanting to grant the request, but the political officer had intervened, pointing out that their orders were both urgent and explicit: they had to be on station as quickly as possible; to do otherwise would be "politically unsound."†
Chpt 8.wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- It was making the needles on his gauges waver, Petchukocov noted.†
Chpt 8.
- The pressure gauges were really wavering because of the thirty-pound overpressure waves pulsing through the system.†
Chpt 8.wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Ryan wavered.†
Chpt 14.wavered = was unsure or weak; or moved back and forth
- His voice had wavered.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(waver) to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)