Definition of stagger

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

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Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind..
Staggerwort :: Staggeringly (adv.) In a staggering manner.
Coenurus :: Coenurus (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid..
Straddle :: Straddle (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Staggeringly :: Staggerbush (n.) An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves..
Stagger :: Stagger (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..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger..
Stagger :: Stagger (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..
Stagger :: Stagger (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..
Garget :: Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite..
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Wabble :: Wabble (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers..
Staggerbush :: Stagger (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Reel :: Reel (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel..
Groggy :: Groggy (a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
Totter :: Totter (v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age..
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