Stagger

Noun

 * 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) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
 * 3) bewilderment; perplexity.

Verb

 * 1)  In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
 * She began to stagger across the room.
 * 1)  To cause to reel or totter.
 * The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
 * 1)  To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
 * After the second earthquake, the clock tower began to stagger.
 * 1)  To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
 * Under severe criticism, the leader began to stagger.
 * 1)  To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
 * He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
 * We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
 * 1)  To schedule in intervals.
 * We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

Adverbs for Stagger
intoxicatedly; weakly; clumsily; stumblingly; helplessly; blindly; faintingly.

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