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Definition of Stagger
1. Verb. Walk as if unable to control one's movements. "The drunken man staggered into the room"
Generic synonyms: Walk
Derivative terms: Careen, Lurch, Reeler, Staggerer
2. Noun. An unsteady uneven gait.
3. Verb. Walk with great difficulty. "The children stagger to the playground"; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
4. Verb. To arrange in a systematic order. "Stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
5. Verb. Astound or overwhelm, as with shock. "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
Definition of Stagger
1. v. i. 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. v. t. To cause to reel or totter.
3. n. 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.
Definition of Stagger
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers. ¹
3. Noun. bewilderment; perplexity. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To cause to reel or totter. ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive) 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. ¹
10. Verb. (transitive) To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. ¹
11. Verb. (transitive) To schedule in intervals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stagger
1. to walk or stand unsteadily [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Stagger
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1. 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.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagger
Literary usage of Stagger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"To stammer is used in the N. of E. and Scotland in the sense of stumble or stagger.
Fr. chanceler, to stagger, also to stammer.—Cot. ..."
2. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"NE. dial. rail reel, stagger; creep, crawl about, walk slowly or feebly ('dialect
form of reel'—Wright), NE. reel turn, wind; stagger, incline the body from ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1889)
"Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: put thine hand round about me, then I shall
no longer stagger like a drunken man. What is my hope? ..."
4. Applied Aerodynamics by Leonard Bairstow (1920)
"Changes ol stagger of a Triplane.—The series of experiments relating to the changes
... The gap to chord ratio was unity, and the angles of stagger -f 30°, ..."
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