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Faltered vs Feltered - What's the difference?

faltered | feltered |

As verbs the difference between faltered and feltered

is that faltered is (falter) while feltered is (felter).

faltered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (falter)

    • Anagrams

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    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

    feltered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (felter)

    • felter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clot or mat together like felt.
  • * Fairfax
    • 'His feltered locks that on his bosom fell.
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