STAGGER
\stˈaɡə], \stˈaɡə], \s_t_ˈa_ɡ_ə]\
Definitions of STAGGER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
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astound or overwhelm; "These poor people are staggered by the drain on their savings"
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astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
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walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
By Princeton University
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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.
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To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
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To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
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To cause to reel or totter.
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To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
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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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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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A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
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Bewilderment; perplexity.
By Oddity Software
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To totter or reel; begin to doubt, weary, or give way; hesitate.
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To cause to totter or reel; shock; make less confident.
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A sudden reeling or tottering.
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Staggerer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To reel from side to side: to begin to give way: to begin to doubt: to hesitate.
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To cause to reel: to cause to doubt or hesitate: to shock.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald