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All flipflop synonyms

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verb flipflop

  • backslide β€” to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
  • decline β€” If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
  • deteriorate β€” If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
  • lapse β€” an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
  • recrudesce β€” to break out afresh, as a sore, a disease, or anything else that has been quiescent.
  • recur β€” to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
  • relapse β€” to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
  • resume β€” a summing up; summary.
  • retrograde β€” moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
  • retrogress β€” to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism.
  • return β€” to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
  • come back β€” If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.
  • fall off the wagon β€” (Idiomatic) To cease or fail at a regimen of self-improvement or reform; to lapse back into an old habit or addiction.
  • throw back β€” to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • fluctuate β€” to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
  • deviate β€” To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
  • drift β€” a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
  • move β€” to pass from one place or position to another.
  • relocate β€” to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
  • remove β€” to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
  • 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.
  • vary β€” to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cook β€” When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
  • dislocate β€” to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • fault β€” a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
  • reposition β€” the act of depositing or storing.
  • 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.
  • swerve β€” to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • tack β€” a lease, especially on farmland.
  • transmogrify β€” to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • vacillate β€” to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
  • 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.
  • bottom out β€” If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
  • do up β€” Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • recalibrate β€” to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • turn the corner β€” the place at which two converging lines or surfaces meet.
  • metamorphose β€” to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • put β€” to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • render β€” to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
  • reorder β€” to put in order again: to reorder the card file.
  • transfigure β€” to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
  • transform β€” to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • translate β€” to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • transmute β€” change into another form
  • waver β€” to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • change one's mind β€” to alter one's decision or opinion
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