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wobble

n. an unsteady rocking motion

shimmy, wobble

v. tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"

wobble, coggle

v. move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street"

careen, wobble, shift, tilt

v. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

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cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch

v. heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

exchange, change, interchange

v. give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"

assent, accede, acquiesce

v. to agree or express agreement; "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore"

stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen

v. walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

weave, wind, thread, meander, wander

v. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle

v. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

roll

v. move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"

gyrate, spiral, coil

v. to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

rotate, circumvolve

v. cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"

whirl, birl, spin, twirl

v. cause to spin; "spin a coin"

pitch

v. fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"

rock, sway

v. cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently"

flip, toss

v. lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!"

toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle

v. walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"

swing

v. alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"

affect, impress, move, strike

v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate

v. shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"

overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake

v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

flail, thresh

v. move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"

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