Definitions for stagger

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stagger stag·ger

Spelling: [stag-er]

IPA: /ˈstæg ər/

Stagger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in stagger (aeggrst).

Definitions for stagger

verb (used without object)

1. to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
2. to falter or begin to give way, as in an argument or fight.
3. to waver or begin to doubt, as in purpose or opinion; hesitate:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to reel, totter, or become unsteady:
2. to shock; render helpless with amazement or the like; astonish:
3. to cause to waver or falter:
4. to arrange in a zigzag order or manner on either side of a center:
5. to arrange otherwise than at the same time, especially in a series of alternating or continually overlapping intervals:
6. Aeronautics. to arrange (the wings of a biplane or the like) so that the entering edge of an upper wing is either in advance of or behind that of a corresponding lower wing.

noun

1. the act of staggering; a reeling or tottering movement or motion.
2. a staggered order or arrangement.
3. Aeronautics. a staggered arrangement of wings. the amount of staggering.
4. staggers, (used with a singular verb) Veterinary Pathology. Also called blind staggers. acute selenium poisoning of livestock characterized by a staggering gait usually followed by respiratory failure and death. a condition of unknown cause, occurring in pregnant sheep, cattle, and other animals during or just following extended transport, characterized by a staggering gait and progressive paralysis.

Origin of stagger

1520-30; earlier stacker to reel, Middle English stakeren Old Norse stakra to reel, equivalent to stak(a) to stagger + -ra frequentative suffix

Examples for stagger

She thumps and lurches, and they stagger together, feeling sick.

She saw De Launay stagger again and felt that she was about to faint.

Mr Vladimir did not stumble, did not stagger back, did not change his stride.

Later, she used to stagger from one hammock to another and swing them.

His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.

If News Corp. really distrusted a former staffer, it might stagger her severance payments, says Estreicher.

Twice they were driven to their knees, only to stagger on as the convulsions lessened.

The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.

A miner puts his head down and runs, with a long swinging stride, through places where I can only stagger.

Unless we stagger the hours of medical service provision, all those people will end up in the emergency room.