stagger

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  1. intransitive verb To move or stand unsteadily, as if under a great weight; totter.
  2. intransitive verb To begin to lose confidence or strength of purpose; waver.
  3. transitive verb To cause to totter, sway, or reel: The blow staggered him.
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  • The blow made me stagger, and I wiped her blood off my forehead... sluggish, nasty dark stuff. —  MaryJanice Davidson - Betsy 07 - Undead and Unworthy
  • All the cubic miles of hot air seemed to stagger, as if a vast but subsonic chord had been struck on some cosmic organ. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • He then appeared to shiver, stagger, and nod drowsily as if drugged; finally he collapsed on the ground. —  Two For The Lions
  • The story follows a father and son as the they wander, stagger, and grope their way through a burned over, scarred America. —  California Literary Review
  • In round 3, the dizzy-stagger was between Sierra and JT. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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dizzy ·  astound ·  astonish ·  tremendous ·  appal ·  terrific ·  unbelievable ·  prodigious ·  daze ·  unprecedented ·  unsteady ·  unable

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stagger:   staggering ·  staggered
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra, frequentative of staka, to push.

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  1. A variant of stacker, after Middle Dutch staggeren, stagger as a drunken man (apparently a variant of *stackeren = Icelandic stakra, stagger): see stacker.
  2. from stagger, v.
 

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