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fal·ter    Audio Help   (fôl'tər)  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   fal·tered, fal·ter·ing, fal·ters
  1. To be unsteady in purpose or action, as from loss of courage or confidence; waver. See Synonyms at hesitate.
  2. To speak hesitatingly; stammer.
    1. To move ineptly or haltingly; stumble.
    2. To operate or perform unsteadily or with a loss of effectiveness: The automobile engine faltered.

n.  
  1. Unsteadiness in speech or action.
  2. A faltering sound.


[Middle English falteren, to stagger, possibly from Old Norse faltrask, to be puzzled, hesitate.]

fal'ter·er n., fal'ter·ing·ly adv.
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faltering

adjective
1. unsteady in speech or action 

noun
1. the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: hesitation] 

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Faltering

Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb. n. Faltering.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]

1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.

With faltering speech and visage incomposed. --Milton.

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

3. To hesitate in purpose or action.

Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.

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. --I. Taylor.
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