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Meanings of vacillate in English

Portuguese
vacilar
Spanish
dudar

Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action.

        vacilar

        Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern.

              Usage of vacillate in English
              1
              Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
              The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 3
              2
              His records vacillate between ecstasy and grief, and go everywhere in-between.
              Radio NZ
              3
              Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate like shadows.
              The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
              4
              And as long as I vacillate between the two extremes, my womb remains closed.
              Ebony
              5
              Then they would apply themselves to Jacob and vacillate eternally between the two extremes.
              Jacob's Room
              6
              So I vacillate between being so grateful and so terrified.
              News.com.au
              7
              When Peter rode into the park he did not vacillate.
              The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
              8
              But she was obliged to vacillate for awhile between her husband and her daughter.
              He Knew He Was Right
              9
              The Crusaders arrive at Bethlehem; and here the stout mind of Plantagenet began to vacillate.
              Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Pr...
              10
              But in such a matter the mind will vacillate.
              Cousin Henry
              11
              Still through December and January Elizabeth continued to vacillate.
              England under the Tudors
              12
              The Supreme Reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate at hazard.
              Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
              13
              And you know, I think all writers tend to vacillate between misanthropy and the other thing.
              The new yorker
              14
              I saw her panic in her embarrassment, and vacillate between starting the engine or getting out.
              Moon Over Soho
              15
              Have I not told you I like to waver, and vacillate, and oscillate, and make scruples?
              The Maid of Maiden Lane
              16
              I vacillate on the issue a lot.
              Ebony
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              Translations for vacillate
              Portuguese
              vacilar
              Spanish
              dudar
              Vacillate through the time