MOVE BACK AND FORTH Synonyms

• be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

• move or swing from side to side regularly

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• building material used as siding or roofing

• frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream

• a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

• grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

• a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement

• causing to move repeatedly from side to side

• move or cause to move back and forth

• move with or as if with a tremor

• shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively

• move back and forth or sideways

• undermine or cause to waver

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• get rid of

• bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking

• shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state

• controlling influence

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• win approval or support for

• cause to move back and forth

• a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity

• mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

• a sweeping blow or stroke

• changing location by moving back and forth

• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

• a jaunty rhythm in music

• the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

• in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

• a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

• move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• change direction with a swinging motion; turn

• influence decisively

• make a big sweeping gesture or movement

• hang loosely

• hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement

• alternate dramatically between high and low values

• live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style

• have a certain musical rhythm

• be a social swinger; socialize a lot

• play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

• engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends

• a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

• move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

• any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time

• a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions

• a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)

• provide with a toggle or toggles

• fasten with, or as if with, a toggle

• release by a toggle switch

• shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner

• move or swing from side to side regularly

• be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

• sound with resonance

• feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

• a witty amusing person who makes jokes

• causing to move repeatedly from side to side

• move from side to side

• causing to move repeatedly from side to side

• move from side to side

• move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion

• an unsteady rocking motion

• move unsteadily

• move sideways or in an unsteady way

• tremble or shake