stagger

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

   To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

3. 3noun

   To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

4. 4transitive verb

   To cause to reel or totter.

5. 5transitive verb

   To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

6. 6transitive verb

   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.

7. 7noun

   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.

8. 8noun

   A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

9. 9noun

   Bewilderment; perplexity.

10. 10noun

    an unsteady uneven gait

    Synonyms

    lurchstumble
11. 11verb

    to arrange in a systematic order

    "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"

    Synonyms

    distribute
12. 12verb

    astound or overwhelm, as with shock

    "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"

13. 13verb

    walk as if unable to control one's movements

    "The drunken man staggered into the room"

    Synonyms

    careenkeellurchreelswag
14. 14verb

    walk with great difficulty

    "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

    Synonyms

    flounder