Synonyms of the word

oscillate

• v. (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.

hesitate

• v. (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to…
• v. (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
• v. (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

hover

• v. To float in the air.
• v. To linger in one place.
• v. To waver, or be uncertain.
• v. (computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
• n. A cover; a shelter; a protection.

sway

• n. The act of swaying; a swaying motion; a swing or sweep of a weapon.
• n. A rocking or swinging motion.
• n. Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side.
• n. Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
• n. Rule; dominion; control.
• n. A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
• n. The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's lateral motion.
• v. To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock.
• v. To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield.
• v. To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide…
• v. To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp.
• v. (nautical) To hoist (a mast or yard) into position.
• v. To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
• v. To have weight or influence.
• v. To bear sway; to rule; to govern.

swing

• v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
• v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
• v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
• v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
• v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
• v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
• v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
• v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
• v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
• v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
• n. The manner in which something is swung.
• n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
• n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
• n. A dance style.
• n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
• n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
• n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
• n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
• n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
• n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
• n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
• n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

vacillate

• v. (intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
• v. (intransitive) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

vibrate

• v. To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
• v. To resonate.
• v. To brandish; to swing to and fro.
• v. To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
• v. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
• n. The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most)…

waffle

• n. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
• n. (countable, Britain) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
• v. To smash.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
• v. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
• v. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
• v. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
• v. To vacillate.
• v. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.