Teeter

//ˈtiːtə//

Synonyms for "teeter" (90 found)

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derived

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manner of

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related to

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Translations

36 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • нерешителен съм verb (to be indecisive)

Catalan

2 entries
  • titubejar verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • trontollar verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Czech

2 entries
  • kolísat (na hraně) verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • váhat verb (to be indecisive)

Dutch

3 entries
  • waggelen verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • wankelen verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • weifelen verb (to be indecisive)

Finnish

2 entries
  • hoippua verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • horjua verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

French

3 entries
  • basculer verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • branler verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • tituber verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Galician

3 entries
  • cambalear verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • titubear verb (to be indecisive)
  • vacilar verb (to be indecisive)

German

4 entries
  • schwanken verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • sich winden verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • taumeln verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • wankeln verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Māori

3 entries
  • tīkokikoki verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • tūkokikoki verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • tūretireti verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Polish

4 entries
  • chwiać się verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • kolebać się verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • nie móc się zdecydować verb (to be indecisive)
  • wahać się verb (to be indecisive)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • cambalear verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • titubear verb (to be indecisive)
  • vacilar verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • vacilar verb (to be indecisive)

Russian

2 entries
  • кача́ться verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)
  • колеба́ться verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Spanish

1 entries
  • tambalearse verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Swedish

2 entries
  • vela verb (to be indecisive)
  • vingla verb (tilt back and forth on an edge)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

They were so proud of their beautiful park, they had never let people even walk on the grass; and now this bold man actually dared to propose that they should put swings and teeter boards and tennis courts right where the grass was most beautiful!

Source: tatoeba (11899515)

He teetered on the brink of the precipice.

Source: wiktionary

The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.

Source: wiktionary

This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.