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{"id": "falter", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "falter", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "falterer", "text": "falterer"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the senses \u2018stammer\u2019 and \u2018stagger\u2019): perhaps from the verb fold (which was occasionally used of the faltering of the legs or tongue) + -ter as in totter"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/falter_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8f\u0254\u02d0lt\u0259"}, {"dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8f\u0252lt\u0259"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["lose strength or momentum"], "examples": [{"text": "the music faltered, stopped, and started up again"}, {"text": "her smile faltered and then faded"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0349410.006", "shortDefinitions": ["lose strength or momentum"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["speak hesitantly"], "examples": [{"notes": [{"text": "with direct speech", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "\u2018A-Adam?\u2019 he faltered"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0349410.016", "shortDefinitions": ["speak hesitantly"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "stammer"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stutter"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stumble"}, {"language": "en", "text": "speak haltingly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hesitate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pause"}, {"language": "en", "text": "halt"}, {"language": "en", "text": "splutter"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flounder"}, {"language": "en", "text": "blunder"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fumble"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "falter", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005448.002"}]}, {"definitions": ["move unsteadily or hesitantly"], "examples": [{"text": "he faltered and finally stopped in mid-stride"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0349410.017", "shortDefinitions": ["move unsteadily or hesitantly"]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "hesitate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "delay"}, {"language": "en", "text": "drag one's feet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stall"}, {"language": "en", "text": "think twice"}, {"language": "en", "text": "get cold feet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "change one's mind"}, {"language": "en", "text": "waver"}, {"language": "en", "text": "oscillate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fluctuate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "vacillate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be undecided"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be indecisive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be irresolute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "see-saw"}, {"language": "en", "text": "yo-yo"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "falter", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005448.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "falter"}], "type": "headword", "word": "falter"}], "word": "falter"}
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