teetered

Verb

teeter (third-person singular simple present teeters, present participle teetering, simple past and past participle teetered)

1. (intransitive) To tilt back and forth on an edge.
   • He teetered on the brink of the precipice.
2. (intransitive) To totter (move unsteadily).
   • How many other organizations have sprung up amidst apparently unlimited energy, been the focus of a great deal of activism and education, and then begun to diminish? Some teeter along for a long time even though their base of support seems to have eroded; some metamorphose into something else...1985 December 28, Nora Janeway, “Women's Pentagon Action Meets for the Last Time”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 12
3. (figuratively) To be indecisive; to hesitate.
   • We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity.
4. (figuratively) To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
   • Despite appearances, the firm was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

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