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staggering
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staggering
Verb
  • present participle of stagger
Adjective
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
Noun
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
stagger
Noun
  • 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; apoplectic or sleepy staggers. veterinary medicine
  • Bewilderment; perplexity.
  • The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners. motorsport
  • The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another. aviation
Verb
  • Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
    • 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. intransitive
    • To cause to reel or totter. transitive
    • To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. intransitive
  • Doubt, waver, be shocked.
    • To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. intransitive
    • To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. transitive
  • Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856 ). transitive
    • 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.
    • To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
    • To schedule in intervals.