teeter

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishteetertee‧ter /ˈtiːtə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive] 1 BALANCEto stand or walk moving from side to side, as if you are going to fall She teetered along in her high-heeled shoes.2 → be teetering on the brink/edge of something → See Verb table Examples from the Corpusteeter• Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!• Gilling's ability to teeter between fantasy and plausibility recalls Dickens.What he imagines is equal to anything Prospero might have conjured.• The kegs shifted, teetered, fell!• If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.• Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.• As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.• And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.Origin teeter (1800-1900) titter "to move unsteadily" ((14-20 centuries))

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teeter

Simple Form

Present

I, you, we, they teeter

he, she, it teeters

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Past

I, you, he, she, it, we, they teetered

Present perfect

I, you, we, they have teetered

he, she, it has teetered

Past perfect

I, you, he, she, it, we, they had teetered

Future

I, you, he, she, it, we, they will teeter

Future perfect

I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have teetered

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Continuous Form

Present

I am teetering

he, she, it is teetering

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you, we, they are teetering

Past

I, he, she, it was teetering

you, we, they were teetering

Present perfect

I, you, we, they have been teetering

he, she, it has been teetering

Past perfect

I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been teetering

Future

I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be teetering

Future perfect

I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been teetering

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