staggers
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Definitions
noun
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion“the stagger of a drunken man”
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling“apoplectic or sleepy staggers”
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
verb
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
noun
- Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs
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