Entry Word: rock

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions <the boat was rocking so much that Rosa felt seasick>

Synonyms careen, lurch, pitch, roll, seesaw, sway, toss, wobble

Related Words blunder, dodder, falter, flounder, halt, hitch, hobble, jerk, reel, stagger, stumble, teeter, toddle, totter, tumble, waddle, weave; oscillate, undulate, wag, waggle

2 to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side <the drunk rocked on his heels for a moment and then fell flat on his back> — see teeter 1