'Stagger' definitions:
Definition of 'stagger'
From: WordNet
noun
verb
Walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen]
verb
Walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow" [syn: stagger, flounder]
verb
To arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" [syn: stagger, distribute]
verb
Astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
Definition of 'Stagger'
From: GCIDE
- Stagger \Stag"ger\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to reel or totter. [1913 Webster]
- That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. [1913 Webster]
- Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered. --Howell. [1913 Webster]
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stagger'
From: GCIDE
- Stagger \Stag"ger\ (-g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Staggered (-g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staggering.] [OE. stakeren, Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push, stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. Stake, n.]
- 1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. [1913 Webster]
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. "The enemy staggers." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. [1913 Webster]
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. --Rom. iv. 20. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stagger'
From: GCIDE
- Stagger \Stag"ger\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Far.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apopletic or sleepy staggers. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. Bewilderment; perplexity. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stagger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affright,
- agitate,
- alarm,
- alternate,
- amaze,
- amble,
- amplitude,
- arrhythmia,
- astonish,
- astound,
- awe,
- awestrike,
- back and fill,
- barge,
- be drunk,
- be incredible,
- be intoxicated,
- be unbelievable,
- bedaze,
- bedazzle,
- bewilder,
- blunder,
- boggle,
- bowl along,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- brokenness,
- bundle,
- burden,
- camber,
- capriciousness,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- choppiness,
- clump,
- come a cropper,
- confound,
- crack,
- crankle,
- curdle the blood,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- desultoriness,
- devastate,
- discombobulate,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- dither,
- do,
- drag,
- droop,
- dumbfound,
- dumbfounder,
- ebb and flow,
- eccentricity,
- electrify,
- erraticness,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- falter,
- fare,
- fibrillation,
- fill with doubt,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- flabbergast,
- flight path,
- floor,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuation,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- foot,
- footslog,
- fright,
- frighten,
- funk,
- fuss,
- gait,
- gallop,
- get,
- get a cropper,
- go,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- have two minds,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hop,
- horripilate,
- inconstancy,
- intermittence,
- irregularity,
- jar,
- jerkiness,
- jog,
- jolt,
- jump,
- knock over,
- labor,
- limp,
- list,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- make one tremble,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- muddle through,
- nonplus,
- nonuniformity,
- oscillate,
- overcome,
- overpower,
- overwhelm,
- pace,
- paddle,
- paralyze,
- pass belief,
- pass out,
- patchiness,
- peg,
- pendulate,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- petrify,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- plod,
- plunge,
- pop,
- prance,
- puzzle,
- rack,
- raise apprehensions,
- rattle,
- rearrange,
- reel,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- roughness,
- ruffle,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scare,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- see double,
- seesaw,
- seethe,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shamble,
- shatter,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shock,
- shot,
- shuffle,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- skin effect,
- skin friction,
- skip,
- slap,
- slink,
- slip,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- space out,
- spasticity,
- spook,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stab,
- stalk,
- stammer,
- stamp,
- startle,
- step,
- stir,
- stiver,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- strike dead,
- strike dumb,
- strike with wonder,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- struggle,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- surprise,
- swagger,
- sway,
- swing,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- take aback,
- tax,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- traipse,
- tread,
- trip,
- trot,
- trouble,
- trudge,
- try,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn turtle,
- uncertainty,
- unevenness,
- unman,
- unmethodicalness,
- unnerve,
- unpredictability,
- unsettle,
- unsteadiness,
- unstring,
- unsystematicness,
- upset,
- vacillate,
- variability,
- vary,
- velocity,
- volutation,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wamble,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- weave,
- welter,
- whack,
- wheel,
- whiffle,
- whimsicality,
- whirl,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag