vacillate

verb
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[intransitive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they vacillate
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he / she / it vacillates
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past simple vacillated
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past participle vacillated
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-ing form vacillating
🔊/ˈvæsəleɪtɪŋ/
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  1. to keep changing your opinion or thoughts about something, especially in a way that annoys other people观点(或立场等)摇摆;动摇 synonym waver
    • The country’s leaders are still vacillating between confrontation and compromise.该国领导人仍在对抗与妥协之间摇摆不定。
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘sway unsteadily’): from Latin vacillat- ‘swayed’, from the verb vacillare.