Stagger

['stægə] or ['stægɚ]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) to arrange in a systematic order; 'stagger the chairs in the lecture hall'.

(verb.) astound or overwhelm, as with shock; 'She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake'.

(verb.) walk as if unable to control one's movements; 'The drunken man staggered into the room'.

(verb.) walk with great difficulty; 'He staggered along in the heavy snow'.

手打:罗纳德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

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

(v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.

(v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

(v. t.) 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.

(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.

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

(n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.

錄入:谢里夫

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Reel, totter, vacillate.

v. a. Shock, astonish, astound, amaze, confound, dumfounder, pose, surprise, nonplus, strike with wonder, take by surprise.

編輯:莉莉

解釋/意思:

v.i. to reel from side to side: to begin to give way: to begin to doubt: to hesitate.—v.t. to cause to reel: to cause to doubt or hesitate: to shock.—adv. Stagg′eringly.—n. Stagg′ers a popular term applied to several diseases of horses.—Grass or Stomach staggers an acute indigestion; Mad or Sleepy staggers an inflammation of the brain.

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