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Stagger Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Stagger?
[n] an unsteady uneven gait
[v] astound or overwhelm; "These poor people are staggered by the drain on their savings" [v] to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" [v] astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake" [v] walk as if unable to control one's movements [v] walk with great difficulty; as in snow or mud [v] move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stagger: careen | distribute | flounder | keel | lurch | lurch | reel | stack | stumble | swag Related Terms | Find terms related to Stagger: See Also | amaze | arrange | baffle | beat | bewilder | dumbfound | flummox | gait | get | go | gravel | locomote | move | mystify | nonplus | overcome | overpower | overtake | overwhelm | perplex | pose | puzzle | set up | stupefy | sweep over | travel | vex | walk | whelm Stagger In Webster's Dictionary \Stag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Staggered}; 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.
Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
--Dryden.
2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
``The enemy staggers.'' --Addison.
3. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less
confident or determined; to hesitate.
He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief. --Rom. iv. 20.
\Stag"ger\, v. t. 1. To cause to reel or totter. That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. --Shak. 2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much stagered. --Howell. Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. --Burke. 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. \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. 2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers. 3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak. {Stomach staggers} (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death. |
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