💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Shift about"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| vacillateverb | (intransitive) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another. |
| wobblenoun | An unsteady motion. |
| fluctuateverb | (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing. |
| oscillateverb | (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm. |
| hovernoun | An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place. |
| shilly-shallyverb | (informal) Indecisive; wavering. |
| swingnoun | The act, or an instance, of swinging. |
| blow hot and coldverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion. |
| wavernoun | (figurative) A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation. |
| whifflenoun | A short blow or gust. |
| balancenoun | (uncountable) A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium. |
| wavenoun | A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. |
| yo-yonoun | A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist. |
| shiftnoun | A movement to do something, a beginning. |
| vagitateverb | To wail, mewl (as an infant). |
| change upverb | (transitive, informal) To vary. |
| fluxuateverb | Misspelling of fluctuate. [(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.] |
| swithernoun | (chiefly Scotland, Northern England) A state of indecision or confusion; a panicked state; a flap, fluster, or dither. |
| alternate | Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly). |
| waiveverb | (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. |
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