Stagger

['stægə] or ['stægɚ]

Definition

(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'.

Typist: Ronald--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Sharif

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Reel, totter, vacillate.

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

Inputed by Lilly

Definition

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.

Typed by Erica