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{
"term": "wobble",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "wobble",
"heSheIt": "wobbles"
},
"pastSimple": "wobbled",
"pastParticiple": "wobbled",
"ingForm": "wobbling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to move from side to side in an unsteady way; to make something do this",
"sensetop": "wobble something",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This chair wobbles."
},
{
"text": "Her voice wobbled with emotion."
},
{
"text": "Don't wobble the table—I'm trying to write.",
"contextForm": "wobble something"
},
{
"text": "His legs began to wobble under him."
},
{
"text": "The vase wobbled and then crashed to the ground."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to go in a particular direction while moving from side to side in an unsteady way",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He wobbled off on his bike."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to hesitate or lose confidence about doing something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Yesterday the president showed the first signs of wobbling over the issue."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɒbl/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobble__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɒblz/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbles__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɒbld/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbled__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɒblɪŋ/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːbl/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobble__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːblz/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbles__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːbld/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbled__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːblɪŋ/",
"audio": "wo/wobble/wobbling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla ‘waver’; related to the verb wave."
}