stagger

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. Source: opted

2. n. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. Source: opted

3. n. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. Source: opted

4. v. t. To cause to reel or totter. Source: opted

5. v. t. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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

9. n. Bewilderment; perplexity. Source: opted

10. n. an unsteady uneven gait Source: wordnet

11. v. walk as if unable to control one's movements Source: wordnet

12. v. walk with great difficulty Source: wordnet

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