Definition of Stagger

Stagger

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.

To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

To cause to reel or totter.

To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

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.

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.

A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

Bewilderment; perplexity.

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Stagger Quotations

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
David Antin

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
Fritz Scholder

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Stagger Translations

stagger in French is tituber
stagger in German is wanken, Staffelung, staffeln
stagger in Spanish is tambaleo
stagger in Swedish is vackla, stappla, ragla

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