Usually means: Lost strength or momentum temporarily.
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  1. faltered: Merriam-Webster
  2. faltered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. faltered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Faltered, faltered: Wordnik
  5. faltered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. faltered: Wiktionary
  7. Faltered, faltered: Dictionary.com
  8. faltered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Faltered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Faltered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. faltered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. faltered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. faltered: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (falter)

noun:  An unsteadiness.
verb:  To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
verb:  To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
verb:  To stumble.
verb:  (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
verb:  To hesitate in purpose or action.
verb:  To cleanse or sift, as barley.
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