Definitions for tottering

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tottering tot·ter·ing

Spelling: [tot-er-ing]

IPA: /ˈtɒt ər ɪŋ/

Tottering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in tottering (eginorttt).

Definitions for tottering

noun

1. the act of tottering; an unsteady movement or gait.

adjective

1. walking unsteadily or shakily.
2. lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse; precarious:

verb (used without object)

1. to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness.
2. to sway or rock on the base or ground, as if about to fall:
3. to shake or tremble:

Origin of tottering

totter + -ing²

Examples for tottering

It had taken this news from the harbor to bring him tottering, crashing down.

He is vividly, fearfully aware of how much worse things might get than the rotten, tottering system he upholds.

Our Union is tottering to its foundation, and slavery is the cause.

The bankrupt ones are outlined in red, while the tottering ones have orange outlines.

I went downstairs trembling, tottering, and my teeth chattering.

And in all the rest of the world, half a dozen old men, if so many, tottering toward their graves.

The commercial and moral fabric of European civilization is tottering.

Egypt is tottering between rule by Islamists and the military.

He was not about to throw himself headlong from the summit of the tottering wall.

Bags had grown to this enormous monstrosity, wildly unfunctional, akin to tottering around on seven-inch heels.