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Staggers

An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion

📖 Definitions of "Staggers"

noun
  1. 1

    An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion

    "the stagger of a drunken man"

  2. 2

    A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling

    "apoplectic or sleepy staggers"

  3. 3

    Bewilderment; perplexity.

  4. 4

    The spacing out of various actions over time.

verb
  1. 1

    Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

  2. 2

    Doubt, waver, be shocked.

  3. 3

    Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

noun
  1. 1

    Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs

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