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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  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.
  2. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
  3. Bewilderment; perplexity.


Translations

Verb

  1. 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. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
  3. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
  4. To cause to reel or totter.
  5. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
  6. 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. To walk in an awkward, drunken fashion


Translations

  • : tituber(4), quinconce, en (6)

See also


Category:Gaits

bg:stagger et:stagger el:stagger fr:stagger io:stagger hu:stagger pl:stagger ta:stagger te:stagger vi:stagger tr:stagger zh:stagger

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stagger \Stag"ger\, v. t.
1. To cause to reel or totter.
[1913 Webster]

That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
That staggers thus my person. --Shak.
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2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make
less steady or confident; to shock.
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Whosoever will read the story of this war will find
himself much staggered. --Howell.
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Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as
not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger
credibility. --Burke.
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3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stagger \Stag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Staggered
(-g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staggering.] [OE. stakeren,
Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push,
stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. Stake, n.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
--Dryden.
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2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
"The enemy staggers." --Addison.
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3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less
confident or determined; to hesitate.
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He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief. --Rom. iv. 20.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.
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.
[1913 Webster]

2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended
by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic
staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers.
[1913 Webster]

3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with
food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in
death.
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WordNet stagger
n : an unsteady uneven gait [syn: lurch, stumble]
v 1: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken
man staggered into the room" [syn: reel, keel, lurch,
swag, careen]
2: walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy
snow" [syn: flounder]
3: to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the
lecture hall" [syn: distribute]
4: astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with
bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the
earthquake"
Moby Dictionary
affright , agitate , alarm , alternate , amaze , amble , amplitude ,
arrhythmia , astonish , astound , awe , awestrike , back and fill ,
barge , be drunk , be incredible , be intoxicated , be unbelievable ,
bedaze , bedazzle , bewilder , blunder , boggle , bowl along , bowl down ,
bowl over , brokenness , bundle , burden , camber , capriciousness ,
capsize , careen , career , choppiness , clump , come a cropper ,
confound , crack , crankle , curdle the blood , daze , dazzle ,
desultoriness , devastate , discombobulate , discompose , disconcert ,
disconnectedness , discontinuity , disquiet , disturb , dither , do ,
drag , droop , dumbfound , dumbfounder , ebb and flow , eccentricity ,
electrify , erraticness , fall , fall down , fall flat , fall headlong ,
fall over , fall prostrate , falter , fare , fibrillation ,
fill with doubt , fitfulness , fits and starts , flabbergast ,
flight path , floor , flounce , flounder , fluctuate , fluctuation ,
flummox , flurry , fluster , flutter , foot , footslog , fright ,
frighten , funk , fuss , gait , gallop , get , get a cropper , go ,
go through phases , halt , have two minds , hippety-hop , hitch ,
hobble , hop , horripilate , inconstancy , intermittence , irregularity ,
jar , jerkiness , jog , jolt , jump , knock over , labor , limp , list ,
lock step , lumber , lunge , lurch , make one tremble , mince ,
mincing steps , muddle through , nonplus , nonuniformity , oscillate ,
overcome , overpower , overwhelm , pace , paddle , paralyze ,
pass belief , pass out , patchiness , peg , pendulate , perplex ,
perturb , petrify , piaffe , piaffer , pitch , pitch and plunge , plod ,
plunge , pop , prance , puzzle , rack , raise apprehensions , rattle ,
rearrange , reel , ring the changes , rock , roll , roughness , ruffle ,
sashay , saunter , scare , scuff , scuffle , scuttle , see double ,
seesaw , seethe , shake , shake up , shamble , shatter , shift ,
shilly-shally , shock , shot , shuffle , sidle , single-foot ,
skin effect , skin friction , skip , slap , slink , slip , slither , slog ,
slouch , slowness , space out , spasticity , spook , sporadicity ,
sporadicness , spottiness , sprawl , spread-eagle , stab , stalk ,
stammer , stamp , startle , step , stir , stiver , stomp , straddle ,
straggle , stride , strike dead , strike dumb , strike with wonder ,
stroll , strolling gait , struggle , strut , stumble , stump , stun ,
stupefy , surprise , swagger , sway , swing , take a fall , take a flop ,
take a header , take a pratfall , take a spill , take aback , tax ,
teeter , teeter-totter , thrash about , tilt , tittup , toddle , topple ,
topple down , topple over , toss , toss and tumble , toss and turn ,
totter , traipse , tread , trip , trot , trouble , trudge , try , tumble ,
turn , turn turtle , uncertainty , unevenness , unman ,
unmethodicalness , unnerve , unpredictability , unsettle ,
unsteadiness , unstring , unsystematicness , upset , vacillate ,
variability , vary , velocity , volutation , waddle , walk , wallop ,
wallow , wamble , waver , wax and wane , weave , welter , whack , wheel ,
whiffle , whimsicality , whirl , wiggle , wobble , zag , zig , zigzag


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