All 5 Uses
waver
in
Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
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- For a second he seems to waver, and I'm sure he's going to let me go, but then he passes my ID to another regulator.†
p. 81.4 *
- I get the urge to memorize her walk—to imprint her in my brain somehow, just as she is—but as I'm watching her waver in and out of the fierce sunlight, her silhouette gets confused with another one in my head, a shadow weaving in and out of darkness, about to walk off the cliff, and I don't know who I'm looking at anymore.†
p. 196.8
- This time when she turns around she doesn't waver.†
p. 197.7
- I try to watch him go, but the sun blinds me as soon as he's out the door and he turns into a winking, blurry shadow, wavering and disappearing.†
p. 240.7wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- Above us the light from the helicopter wavers a little, trying to locate us, then fixes us in its beam.†
p. 435.7wavers = moves back and forth; or is unsure or weak
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)