Usually means: Wavered or balanced unsteadily; fluctuated.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. teetered: Merriam-Webster
  2. teetered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. teetered: Vocabulary.com
  4. teetered: Wordnik
  5. teetered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. teetered: Wiktionary
  7. teetered: Dictionary.com
  8. teetered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Teetered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Teetered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. teetered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. teetered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. teetered: Legal dictionary

(Note: See teeter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Teeter)

verb:  (intransitive) To tilt back and forth on an edge.
verb:  (intransitive) To totter (move unsteadily).
verb:  (figuratively) To be indecisive; to hesitate.
verb:  (figuratively) To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
noun:  (Canada, US) A teeter-totter or seesaw.
noun:  A surname from German.
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