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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"
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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"
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A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
"apoplectic or sleepy staggers"
- 3
Bewilderment; perplexity.
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The spacing out of various actions over time.
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Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
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Doubt, waver, be shocked.
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Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
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Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs
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