Usually means: Hesitate or waver in action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. falter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. falter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. falter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. falter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. falter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Falter, falter: Wordnik
  7. falter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. falter: Wiktionary
  9. falter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. falter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. falter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Falter, falter: Dictionary.com
  13. falter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. falter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Falter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Falter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. falter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. falter: Rhymezone
  19. falter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. falter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. falter: Free Dictionary
  22. falter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Falter, falter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. falter: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. falter: Legal dictionary

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  1. falter: Encyclopedia

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  1. falter: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. falter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  An unsteadiness.
▸ verb:  To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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.

Similar:
waver, bumble, stutter, stammer, stumble, hesitation, fizzle, tofall, falldown, to-fall, more...

Opposite:
strengthen, fortify, reinforce

Types:
stumble, trip, stumble over, falter in, falter at, falter from, more...

Phrases:
Bailey Falter, opposite of falter, voice falter, without falter, more...

Adjectives:
slight, many, least, own, strongest, fancy, first, spaniards, old, young, weak

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue


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Similar:
waver, bumble, stutter, stammer, stumble, hesitation, fizzle, tofall, falldown, to-fall, more...

Opposite:
strengthen, fortify, reinforce

Types:
stumble, trip, stumble over, falter in, falter at, falter from, more...

Phrases:
Bailey Falter, opposite of falter, voice falter, without falter, more...

Adjectives:
slight, many, least, own, strongest, fancy, first, spaniards, old, young, weak

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue



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