Vacillated vs Vacillate - What's the difference?
vacillated | vacillate |
(vacillate)
To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
* 1910:
To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
* 1910:
To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
As verbs the difference between vacillated and vacillate
is that vacillated is (vacillate) while vacillate is to sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.vacillated
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Verb
(head)vacillate
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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."
Synonyms
* (to sway from one side to the other) stagger * (to swing indecisively) blow hot and cold, waffleExternal links
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* ----vacillate
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."