Totter vs Vacillate - What's the difference?
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To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
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To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
* 1910:
To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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Totter is a related term of vacillate.
As verbs the difference between totter and vacillate
is that totter is to walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall while vacillate is to sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.As a noun totter
is an unsteady movement or gait.totter
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Verb
(en verb)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter , slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
Synonyms
* (move unsteadily) teeter, toddle, swayvacillate
English
Verb
(vacillat)- Its [the barometer's] normal register in the Paumotus [the Tuamotus] was 29.90, and it was quite customary to see it vacillate between 29.85 and 30.00, or even 30.05; [...]
- On the streets of Berlin, Ruth and her compatriots vacillated "between hope and despair."
