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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Falter \Fal"ter\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Faltered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faltering}.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See {Fault}, v. & n.]
1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton.
2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. ''He found his legs falter.'' --Wiseman.
3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.
4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. --I. Taylor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Faltering \Fal"ter*ing\, adjective Hesitating; trembling. ''With faltering speech.'' --Milton. -- n. Falter; halting; hesitation. -- {Fal"ter*ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
faltering
adjective: unsteady in speech or action
noun: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "faltering": ambling, balbutient, bashful, boggling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, demurring, diffident, easy, flagging, foot-dragging, gentle, gradual, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indecisive, indolent, irresolute, jibbing, languid, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, lukewarm, lumbering, moderate, modest, poking, poky, qualmish, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, scrupling, scrupulous, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shuffling, shy, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, squeamish, staggering, stammering, sticking, stickling, straining, strolling, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, timid, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unhurried, vacillatory, waddling, wavering, wobbly
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