Meanings (ES + gloss)
balancearse • ondear
To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down.
flaquear • vacilar
To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
Despite all the terrible things that happened to her, she never wavered from her beliefs.
If, in dishonour of my great design, / Mine and thy fame thou damn'st at this great hour / With any boyish weakness—if thou waverest— / By all the Gods!
fluctuar • oscilar • variar
Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
He had a waistcoat—worn winter and summer—a waistcoat that wavered in hue between a sunny buff and a stony drab, which look so ineffably respectable that I am certain if it had bee…
[D]uring the whole space of time just mentioned, Mr. Benjamin Allen had been wavering between intoxication partial and intoxication complete.