Word Meanings - STAGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to

Additional info about word: STAGGER

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. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. "The enemy staggers." Addison. 3. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Rom. iv. 20.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STAGGER)

• Reel
• Totter
• stagger
• falter

Related words: (words related to STAGGER)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• STAGGERWORT
  A kind of ragwort .
• STAGGER
  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. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to
• TOTTERY
  Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
• TOTTERINGLY
  In a tottering manner.
• FALTERING
  Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.
• STAGGERINGLY
  In a staggering manner.
• TOTTERER
  One who totters.
• STAGGERBUSH
  An American shrub having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• TETTER-TOTTER
  A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.