Usually means: Struggles or hesitates in progress.
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  1. falters: Merriam-Webster
  2. falters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. falters: Vocabulary.com
  4. Falters, falters: Wordnik
  5. falters: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. falters: Wiktionary
  7. falters: Dictionary.com
  8. falters: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. falters: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. falters: Legal dictionary

(Note: See falter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (falter)

noun:  An unsteadiness.
verb:  To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
verb:  To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
verb:  To stumble.
verb:  (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
verb:  To hesitate in purpose or action.
verb:  To cleanse or sift, as barley.
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