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/fˈɔltərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Falter v. t. To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. (Prov. Eng.)

Falter v. t. To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. "And here he faltered forth his last farewell." "Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine.""

Falter v. i. (past & past part. faltered; pres. part. faltering)

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. "With faltering speech and visage incomposed."

To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."

To hesitate in purpose or action. "Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."

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."

noun

Faltering n. Falter; halting; hesitation.

adjective

Faltering adj. Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech."

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"Faltering" Quotes from Famous Books

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