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{"id": "waver", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "waver", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "waverer", "text": "waverer"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English: from Old Norse vafra \u2018flicker\u2019, of Germanic origin. Compare with wave"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/waver_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8we\u026av\u0259"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["move in a quivering way; flicker"], "examples": [{"text": "the flame wavered in the draught"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1145190.006", "shortDefinitions": ["move in quivering way"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "flicker"}, {"language": "en", "text": "quiver"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tremble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "twinkle"}, {"language": "en", "text": "glimmer"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wink"}, {"language": "en", "text": "blink"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "waver", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0016133.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["become weaker; falter"], "examples": [{"text": "his love for her had never wavered"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1145190.013", "shortDefinitions": ["become weaker"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["be undecided between two opinions or courses of action"], "examples": [{"text": "she never wavered from her intention"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1145190.014", "shortDefinitions": ["be undecided between two opinions or courses of action"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "be undecided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be irresolute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be indecisive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dither"}, {"language": "en", "text": "equivocate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "vacillate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fluctuate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "see-saw"}, {"language": "en", "text": "yo-yo"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "waver", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0016133.003"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "become unsteady"}, {"language": "en", "text": "falter"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wobble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tremble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitate"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "waver", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0016133.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "waver"}], "type": "headword", "word": "waver"}], "word": "waver"}