Fluctuate

v. i.	1.	To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. [imp. & p. p. Fluctuated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fluctuating .]
	2.	To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.
v. t.	1.	To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion. And fluctuate all the still perfume. - Tennyson.

Verb	1.	fluctuate - cause to fluctuate or move in a wave-like pattern
	2.	fluctuate - move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated" Synonyms: vacillate, waver
	3.	fluctuate - be unstable; have ups and downs; "The stock market fluctuates"

alternate, back and fill, bob, bobble, careen, chop and change, coggle, dangle, dither, ebb and flow, equivocate, flounder, flutter, go through phases, intermit, lack regularity, librate, lurch, nutate, pendulate, pitch, recur, reel, resonate, return, reverse, ring the changes, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, stagger, swag, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, toss, totter, turn, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, wax and wane, wobble

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