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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.

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