Usually means: Hesitate or fluctuate in decision.
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  1. waver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. waver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waver: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. waver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. waver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. waver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. waver: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waver: Dictionary.com
  13. waver (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. waver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Waver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Waver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. waver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. waver: Rhymezone
  19. Waver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. waver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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(Note: See wavered as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
verb:  (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
verb:  (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
verb:  (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
verb:  (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
verb:  (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
noun:  An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
noun:  Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
noun:  Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
noun:  A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
noun:  (UK, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
noun:  A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.

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