Definition of Falter

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Falter

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 hesitate in purpose or action.

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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Falter Quotations

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

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

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Brad Henry

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Hjalmar Branting

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

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
Fred Savage

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.
R. A. Butler

Falter Translations

falter in Spanish is titubear
falter in Swedish is stappla, stamma

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