| VERB | stative | oscillate, hover, vibrate, vacillate | be undecided about something |
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| motion | oscillate, vibrate | move or swing from side to side regularly |
| Sounds | aa'sahley.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 539 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" | |
| Synonyms | hover, vibrate, vacillate | |
| Narrower | shillyshally | Be uncertain and vague |
| Broader | hesitate, waver, waffle | pause or hold back in uncertainty / uncertainty or unwillingness |
| Spanish | dudar | |
| Nouns | oscillation | the process of oscillating between states |
| Meaning | Move or swing from side to side regularly. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonym | vibrate | |
| Narrower | hunt | oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent |
| librate | Vibrate before coming to a total rest | |
| Broader | swing, sway | Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner |
| Catalan | oscil·lar | |
| Adjectives | oscillatory | having periodic vibrations |
| Nouns | oscillation | (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean |
| oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon | |