falter

Speech parts

1. falter - Noun

2. falter - Verb

Meaning

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.

To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.

To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. Frederick William Faber

If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work. Louis Pasteur

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. Rab Butler

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged. David Guterson

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. Harold Macmillan

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