'oscillate' definitions:
Definition of 'oscillate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate]
verb
Move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" [syn: oscillate, vibrate]
Synonyms of 'oscillate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- be here again,
- bob,
- bobble,
- careen,
- change,
- circle,
- coggle,
- come again,
- come and go,
- come around,
- come round,
- come round again,
- come up again,
- cycle,
- dangle,
- dither,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- go through phases,
- hem and haw,
- intermit,
- librate,
- lurch,
- nutate,
- pendulate,
- pitch,
- pulsate,
- pulse,
- reappear,
- recur,
- reel,
- reoccur,
- repeat,
- resonate,
- return,
- revolve,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- roll around,
- rotate,
- seesaw,
- shake,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shuffle,
- stagger,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tergiversate,
- toss,
- totter,
- turn,
- undulate,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- vibrate,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wave,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- wheel,
- wheel around,
- wobble