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1. (v.i.) stagger
to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
2. stagger
to falter or begin to give way, as in an argument.
3. stagger
to waver or hesitate, as in purpose or resolve.
4. (v.t.) stagger
to cause to reel, totter, or become unsteady.
5. stagger
to astonish or shock:
a fact that staggers the mind.
6. stagger
to cause to waver or falter.
7. stagger
to arrange in an alternating pattern:
to stagger lunch hours.
8. (n.) stagger
the act of staggering; a reeling or tottering movement.
9. stagger
a staggered order or arrangement.
10. stagger
staggers, (used with a sing. v.)
11. stagger
any of several severe diseases of livestock characterized by a staggering gait.
Etymology: (1520–30; earlier stacker to reel, ME stakeren < ON stakra to reel =stak(a) to stagger +-ra freq. suffix)
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| Definition of 'stagger' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) lurch, stumble, stagger
an unsteady uneven gait
2. (verb) stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen
walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man staggered into the room"
3. (verb) stagger, flounder
walk with great difficulty
"He staggered along in the heavy snow"
4. (verb) stagger, distribute
to arrange in a systematic order
"stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
5. (verb) stagger
astound or overwhelm, as with shock
"She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
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1. (verb) stagger
to walk as if you might fall
The injured man staggered away.
2. stagger
to divide a process into parts that do not all begin or happen at the same time
The government staggered the payments over a three-week period.
3. stagger
to shock
We were staggered by the poverty we saw.
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| Definition of 'stagger' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) stagger
to move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter
2. (noun) stagger
to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail
3. (noun) stagger
to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate
4. (noun) stagger
an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man
5. (noun) stagger
a disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers
6. (noun) stagger
bewilderment; perplexity
7. (verb) stagger
to cause to reel or totter
8. (verb) stagger
to cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock
9. (verb) stagger
to arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam
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Sense: to sway, move or walk unsteadily
The drunk man staggered along the road.
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 Afrikaans: steier |
 Arabic: يَتَرَنَّح، يَتَمايَل |
 Bulgarian: клатушкам се |
 Brazilian: cambalear |
 Czech: vrávorat |
 German: schwanken |
 Danish: slingre |
 Greek: τρεκλίζω, παραπατώ |
 Estonian: tuikuma |
 Farsi: تلوتلو خوردن |
 Finnish: hoiperrella |
 French: tituber |
 Hebrew: לְהִתנוֹדֵד |
 Hindi: लड़खड़ाना, डगमगाना |
 Croatian: posrtati, teturati |
 Hungarian: tántorog |
 Indonesian: terhuyung-huyung |
 Icelandic: skjögra |
 Italian: barcollare |
 Japanese: よろめく |
 Korean: 비틀거리다 |
 Lithuanian: šlitiniuoti |
 Latvian: streipuļot |
 Malay: terhuyung-hayang |
 Dutch: wankelen |
 Norwegian: sjangle, rave |
 Polish: zataczać się |
 Portuguese: cambalear |
 Romanian: a seîmpletici |
 Russian: идти шатаясь |
 Slovak: tackať sa |
 Slovenian: opotekati se |
 Serbian: teturati se |
 Swedish: stappla, ragla, vackla |
 Thai: เซ; เอียง |
 Turkish: sendeleyerek yürümek, yal |
 Taiwanese: 蹣跚而行 |
 Ukrainian: хитатися, іти хитаючись |
 Urdu: لڑکھڑانا |
 Vietnamese: làm lảo đảo, loạng choạng |
 Chinese: 蹒跚 |
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