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see-saw(2) (iou)



see-saw verb. Also seesaw. E18.
[from the noun.]
verb intrans. Move up and down or backwards and forwards (as) on a see-saw; play see-saw; fig. vacillate in policy, emotion, etc., vary or swing rapidly and repeatedly in fortune etc. E18.
George Eliot She was seesawing on the elder bough. M. Gee A girl who see-sawed between..wild gaiety and..total seclusion. Financial Times The dollar see-sawed wildly yesterday, first dropping..and later rising sharply.
verb trans. Cause to move in a see-saw motion. M18.