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staggered

verb

Meaning

  1. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
  2. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
  3. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
  4. Astonished, taken aback.
  5. Arranged in a way that is not uniform.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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