vacillate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vacillate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vacillate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vacillate v be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" Synonym(s): hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated" Synonym(s): fluctuate, vacillate, waver
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacillate \Vac"il*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vacillated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vacillating}.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[ntil]c.] 1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. --Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn: See {Fluctuate}.