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Go back and forth, in more than one sense
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stagger
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Word definitions for stagger in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stagger \Stag"ger\, v. t. To cause to reel or totter. That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. --Shak. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. Whosoever will read the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "walk unsteadily, reel" (intransitive), altered from stakeren (early 14c.), from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Danish stagra , Old Norse stakra "to push, shove, cause to reel," also "to stumble, stagger," perhaps literally "hit with a stick," ...
Usage examples of stagger.
Berlin, the greatest anatomist and physiologist among my contemporaries, had barely affirmed he had seen a live centaur, I should certainly have been staggered by the weight of an assertion coming from such an authority.
The deacon ho had led the service staggered out from the low archway that led rk to the sanctuary.
She staggered forward into darkness, pushing her balky body with every bit of will she possessed.
As he watched, two bedraggled specimens of local manhood staggered across the grey floor from the left doorway.
The bedraggled captive struggled painfully to his feet, staggering, and set off back along the shore, followed by the dog and the two naked Scots.
Four men--two Romanian privates, an Italian Bersagliere sergeant and a man in full evening dress--came staggering along with a sedan chair the size of a compartment in a railway carriage between them.
Mrs Blatter avoided him as he staggered towards the door, and she ran towards the altar.
Dazed, she staggered against the tree, squinting through blurry eyes at the monster only ten feet away.
He dragged Bonner half-upright and staggered erect, his prey on his shoulder, clumsy, heavy.
The Titanesses stagger backward, wading through lava, evidently unharmed by the red beam but shielding their faces and eyes from the painful white light flowing out of the Brane Hole.
Larssen staggered backward again, tugging at Brast while at the same time struggling to get his gun back up.
She staggered across the room, backhanding a Bringer as he came at her, sending him flying.
He staggered against the chair, shifted forward, to regain his balance, just as Bronden arrived.
As Bronden stepped back, Sulgate staggered sidewise, twisted about and spread-eagled on the floor.
Much allowance is to be made for a man who is staggering under the mental shock of defeat and the physical exertions which Buller had endured.