{
    "term": "wobble",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "wobble",
            "heSheIt": "wobbles"
        },
        "pastSimple": "wobbled",
        "pastParticiple": "wobbled",
        "ingForm": "wobbling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to move from side to side in an unsteady way; to make something do this",
            "sensetop": "wobble something",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This chair wobbles."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her voice wobbled with emotion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't wobble the table—I'm trying to write.",
                    "contextForm": "wobble something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His legs began to wobble under him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The vase wobbled and then crashed to the ground."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to go in a particular direction while moving from side to side in an unsteady way",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He wobbled off on his bike."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to hesitate or lose confidence about doing something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Yesterday the president showed the first signs of wobbling over the issue."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒbl/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobble__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒblz/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbles__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒbld/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbled__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːbl/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobble__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːblz/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbles__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːbld/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wo/wobble/wobbling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (earlier as wabble): of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse vafla ‘waver’; related to the verb wave."
}