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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Stagger :: Staggering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stagge.
Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..
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.
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..
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..
Staggerbush :: Stagger (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Groggy :: Groggy (a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
Wabble :: Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles..
Garget :: Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite..
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..
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..
Vacillate :: Vacillate (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Wabble :: Wabble (n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Straddle :: Straddle (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Tipsy :: Tipsy (superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling..
Reel :: Reel (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel..
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..
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