Definition of "seesawed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of seesaw. (verb)

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• "He presently sat down and took out a _Grotius De Veritate_, over which he "seesawed" so violently that the mob ran back to see what was the matter."
• "It was the fitful confusion of stop-start fiscal spending that seesawed the economy between hopeful improvement on the one hand, and wrenching cut-backs and consumption taxes urged by austerity-preaching deficit hawks on the other."
• "After a grueling stretch in the past week where the Dow Jones Industrial Average seesawed between triple-digit gains and losses, only one of the 10 initial public offerings that had been scheduled to debut actually made it out."