All flip-flopping synonyms
flip-flop
F f verb flip-flopping
- avoid β If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- hark back β to listen attentively; hearken.
- veer β to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- drift β a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- move β to pass from one place or position to another.
- vary β to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- remove β to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
- deviate β To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- relocate β to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- ship β a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.: popular ships in fan fiction.
- swap β to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- squabble β to engage in a petty quarrel.
- bicker β When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things.
- carp β A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- spar β (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
- wrangle β to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- quash β to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- invalidate β to render invalid; discredit.
- repeal β to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
- revoke β to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
- dismantle β to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
- undo β to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
- nullify β to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- annul β If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
- overrule β to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
- rescind β to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
- set aside β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- react β to act in response to an agent or influence: How did the audience react to the speech?
- degenerate β If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- regress β to move backward; go back.
- recrudesce β to break out afresh, as a sore, a disease, or anything else that has been quiescent.
- retrograde β moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- backslide β to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
- deteriorate β If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
- swerve β to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- slip β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- stir β to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- tack β a lease, especially on farmland.
- transmogrify β to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- cook β When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- vacillate β to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- budge β If someone will not budge on a matter, or if nothing budges them, they refuse to change their mind or to come to an agreement.
- dislocate β to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
- yo-yo β a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
- reposition β the act of depositing or storing.
- transmute β change into another form
- render β to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.