Usually means: Hesitate between different opinions, actions.
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  1. vacillate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vacillate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vacillate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vacillate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vacillate: Wordnik
  6. vacillate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vacillate: Wiktionary
  8. vacillate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vacillate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vacillate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vacillate: Dictionary.com
  12. vacillate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Vacillate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. vacillate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. vacillate: Rhymezone
  16. vacillate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. vacillate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. vacillate: Free Dictionary
  19. vacillate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. vacillate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. vacillate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
verb:  (intransitive) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

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