Definition of "waver" in English

verb

To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Flowers wavered in the breeze.
To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.
To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- His voice wavered when the reporter brought up the controversial topic.
Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
Followed by from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
Of the wits: to become confused or unsteady; to reel.
To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.
To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also (rare), to weaken in resolve due to (something).

noun

An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.

noun

One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
- The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.
- Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
A tool used to make hair wavy.
(printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
(obsolete) Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).

noun

(obsolete except UK, dialectal, dated) A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.