FALTER
\fˈɒltə], \fˈɒltə], \f_ˈɒ_l_t_ə]\
Definitions of FALTER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
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walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
By Princeton University
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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
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To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
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To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
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To hesitate in purpose or action.
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To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
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Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
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To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; - said of the mind or of thought.
By Oddity Software
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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
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To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
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To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
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To hesitate in purpose or action.
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To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
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Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
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To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; - said of the mind or of thought.
By Noah Webster.
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To utter in a weak, trembling manner.
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To show moral or physical hesitancy; waver; tremble; fail in utterance; stammer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To fail or stutter in speech; to tremble or totter; to be feeble or irresolute.
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The act of faltering, hesitating, trembling, stammering, or the like; unsteadiness; hesitation; trembling; quavering. "The falter of an idle shepherd's pipe."-J. R. Lowell.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald