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Faltering   /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)  
1.
To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. "With faltering speech and visage incomposed."
2.
To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter."
3.
To hesitate in purpose or action. "Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."
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."


noun
Faltering  n.  Falter; halting; hesitation.


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





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"Faltering" Quotes from Famous Books



... The faltering sunbeam fades and goes; The night-bird whistles in the brake; The willows quake; Utter darkness walls; the wind Sighs no more. Yet it seems the silence yearns But to catch thy fleeting foot; Yet the wandering glowworm ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume I. • Walter de la Mare
... still ten minutes of the two hours left when the mother-subs broke water and started crawling inland, swiftly, surely, without faltering in the slightest as they changed their element from ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various
... faltering step, toward the other room, inwardly afraid. Another hand met hers, with a reassuring clasp. "One step more, Rose. Now then, forward, march, all ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... And I am the brother whom you have heard of, sir; and who was left for dead in Mr. Braddock's action; and came to life again after eighteen months amongst the French; and live to thank God and thank you for your kindness to my Harry," continued the lad with a faltering voice. ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... had turned back to the desk and did not see Nancy's half-extended hand, or hear her faltering voice. Her hand dropped to her side, and, choking back a sob, she followed Senator Warren and Baker out ...
— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln


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