Stagger
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Stagger
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1 n.
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.
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2 n.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
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3 n.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
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4 v. t.
To cause to reel or totter.
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5 v. t.
To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
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6 v. t.
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.
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7 n.
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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8 n.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
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9 n.
Bewilderment; perplexity.
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10 n.
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.
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11 n.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
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12 n.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
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13 v. t.
To cause to reel or totter.
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14 v. t.
To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
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15 v. t.
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.
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16 n.
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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17 n.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
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18 n.
Bewilderment; perplexity.