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  • adjective Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  • adjective Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
  • verb Present participle of totter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
  • adjective (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

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