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Meaning:
Noun:
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
- 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.
- bewilderment; perplexity.
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Verb:
- transitive To cause to reel or totter.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- intransitive To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- transitive 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.
- transitive To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- transitive To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- transitive To schedule in intervals.
Source: Wiktionary
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