stagger

stagger is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
3. noun. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
4. transitive verb. To cause to reel or totter.
5. transitive verb. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
6. transitive 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. noun. 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. noun. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
9. noun. Bewilderment; perplexity.
10. noun. an unsteady uneven gait

    Synonyms: lurch, stumble

11. verb. to arrange in a systematic order

    "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"

    Synonyms: distribute

12. verb. astound or overwhelm, as with shock

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

13. verb. walk as if unable to control one's movements

    "The drunken man staggered into the room"

    Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag

14. verb. walk with great difficulty

    "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

    Synonyms: flounder

Synonyms

lurch, stumble, distribute, careen, keel, reel, swag, flounder

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stagger:

gagster, gargets, taggers

Common word forms

staggers, staggered, staggerer, staggering

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for STAGGER lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.