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verb-intransitive. To be unsteady in purpose or action, as from loss of courage or confidence; waver. See Synonyms at hesitate.

verb-intransitive. To speak hesitatingly; stammer.

verb-intransitive. To move ineptly or haltingly; stumble.

verb-intransitive. To operate or perform unsteadily or with a loss of effectiveness: The automobile engine faltered.

n. Unsteadiness in speech or action.

n. A faltering sound.

n. unsteadiness.

v. To waver or be unsteady.

v. To stammer.

v. To stumble.

v. To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).

v. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

verb-intransitive. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer.

verb-intransitive. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.

verb-intransitive. To hesitate in purpose or action.

verb-intransitive. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

v. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

n. Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound.

To be unsteady; tremble; totter: as, his legs falter.

To fail in accuracy, distinctness, or regularity of exercise or function; fail or waver from physical or moral weakness, emotion, etc.

To hesitate, especially to hesitate in the utterance of words; speak with a broken or trembling utterance; stammer: as, his tongue falters.

Synonyms Stutter, etc. See stammer.

n. The act of faltering, hesitating, trembling, stammering, or the like; unsteadiness; hesitation; trembling; quavering.

To thresh in the chaff; cleanse or sift out, as barley.

v. walk unsteadily

n. the act of pausing uncertainly

v. speak haltingly

v. be unsure or weak

v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way

"Two quarterbacks, three sacks, four plays, and I'm wondering, does Tice think the word falter'' applies. real_rick at 10:16 PM August 15, 2011"

faltered    faltering    falters   

walk    pause    mouth    verbalise    speak    verbalize    utter    talk    hesitate    waver   

hesitate    hesitation   

tremble    totter    hesitation    trembling    feebleness    stumble    stagger    dodder    hobble    hesitate   

Gibraltar    Psalter    Walter    altar    alter    balter    defaulter    halter    malter    psalter   

awkwardto    beseeching    toddling    cities'    ismore    unshakeable    beinga    anti-missile    blubbery    keyswitch