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колеба́я се — meaning in English

kolebaya se

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English meaning

  • delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  • dither verb To tremble, shake, or shiver.
  • falter verb To lose strength, confidence, or momentum; to hesitate or waver.
  • fluctuate verb To rise and fall irregularly in number, amount or level.
  • halt verb To stop moving or operating, or to cause something to stop.
  • hesitate verb To pause before doing or deciding something because of doubt or reluctance.
  • hover verb To remain suspended in one place in the air.
  • seesaw noun A playground plank balanced in the middle so that a person on one end goes up as the person on the other goes down.
  • vacillate verb To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
  • waver verb To hesitate or show signs of doubt, especially about a decision or resolve.
  • wobble verb To move unsteadily from side to side, rocking rather than moving smoothly.

Senses

колеба́я се is used for these senses in English:

  • blow hot and cold (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
  • delay To put off until a later time; to defer.
  • dither (figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
  • falter (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • fluctuate (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
  • fluctuate (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
  • halt (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
  • hesitate (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.

delay — full definition

  1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.

dither — full definition

  1. verb To tremble, shake, or shiver.
  2. verb To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
  3. verb To do something nervously.
  4. verb To apply an algorithm to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:

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