Substantiv
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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.
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A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
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| stagger -
bewilderment; perplexity.
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Verb
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| stagger -
Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
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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.
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She began to stagger across the room.
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To cause to reel or totter.
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The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
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To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
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After the second earthquake, the clock tower began to stagger.
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| stagger -
Doubt, waver, be shocked.
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To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confidentor determined; to hesitate.
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Under severe criticism, the leader began to stagger.
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To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
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He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
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Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places attested from Etymology in Etymology Online Etymology Dictionary.
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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 this involves only two groups.
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To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
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We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
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To schedule in intervals.
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We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
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