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All flip-flopping synonyms

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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.
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