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swaver

swaver verb: to stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.

Verb

swaver (third-person singular simple present swavers, present participle swavering, simple past and past participle swavered)

  1. To stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.
  2. To incline to one side; to swing.
    • "I felt me swaver a little on my feet. Them winders was a-swimming, they took no reflection, they let in no night."2015, Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Novellas and Stories
  3. (obsolete) To decline away from.

Forms of swaver

third-person singular presentswavers
present participleswavering
past participleswavered
pastswavered

Questions about swaver

What does swaver mean?
Swaver means to stagger or totter; to walk feebly, as one who is fatigued.
What part of speech is swaver?
Swaver is a verb.
What is the past tense of swaver?
The past tense of swaver is swavered.

Words near swaver in the dictionary

  1. swattling
  2. Swatzell
  3. Swatzells
  4. Swauger
  5. Swaugers
  6. swaver
  7. swavered
  8. swavering
  9. swavers
  10. Swavesey
  11. swavory

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