Synonyms of the word

falter

• n. unsteadiness.
• v. To waver or be unsteady.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
• v. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
• v. To stumble.
• v. (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
• v. To hesitate in purpose or action.
• v. To cleanse or sift, as barley.

bumble

• n. A confusion, jumble.
• v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
• n. A bumble-bee.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
• v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

faltering

• v. present participle of falter.
• n. hesitancy.

hesitate

• v. (intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to…
• v. (intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
• v. (transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.

hesitation

• n. An act of hesitating.
• n. doubt; vacillation.
• n. A faltering in speech; stammering.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pause

• v. (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
• v. (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
• v. (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider; to reflect.
• n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
• n. A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
• n. Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
• n. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation…
• n. A break or paragraph in writing.
• n. Alternative spelling of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
• n. (as direct object) take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

stammer

• v. To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
• n. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

stumble

• n. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
• n. An error or blunder.
• n. A clumsy walk.
• v. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
• v. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon,…

stutter

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
• v. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty.
• n. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
• n. (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

waffle

• n. (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern.
• n. (countable, Britain) A potato waffle, a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
• v. To smash.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or writing that is vague, pretentious or evasive.
• v. (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle.
• v. To speak or write vaguely and evasively.
• v. To speak or write at length without any clear point or aim.
• v. To vacillate.
• v. (transitive) To rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of vacillation or ambivalence.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

waver

• v. (intransitive) To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• v. (intransitive) To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• v. (intransitive) To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• v. (intransitive) To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.
• n. An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• n. Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• n. Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• n. A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.