Falter vs Welter - What's the difference?

falter | welter |

As nouns the difference between falter and welter

is that falter is butterfly while welter is welter (boxing class).

falter

English

Noun

(-)

unsteadiness.

Verb

(en verb)

To waver or be unsteady.

* Wiseman

He found his legs falter .

(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.

* Byron

And here he faltered forth his last farewell.

* Milton

With faltering speech and visage incomposed.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.

* I. Taylor

Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .

To stumble.

(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .

To hesitate in purpose or action.

* Shakespeare

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

To cleanse or sift, as barley.

(Halliwell)

References

welter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines

Verb

(en verb)

to roll; to wallow

(intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.

* Latimer

When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.

* Spenser

These wizards welter in wealth's waves.

* Landor

the priests at the altar weltering in their blood

To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.

* Milton

the weltering waves

* Wordsworth

waves that, hardly weltering , die away

* Trench

through this blindly weltering sea

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

Adjective

Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.

Derived terms

* welter-weight

Etymology 3

Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

Verb

(en verb)

To wither; to wilt.

* I. Taylor

Weltered hearts and blighted memories.

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