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Staggers

noun

1.

A disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling. Synonym: blind staggers.

Stagger

noun

1.

An unsteady uneven gait. Synonyms: lurch, stumble.

verb

(past & past part. staggered; pres. part. staggering)

1.

Walk as if unable to control one's movements. Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag.

2.

Walk with great difficulty. Synonym: flounder.

3.

To arrange in a systematic order. Synonym: distribute.

4.

Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.

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... Nature! here 175 In this interminable wilderness Of worlds, at whose involved immensity Even soaring fancy staggers, Here is thy fitting temple. Yet not the lightest leaf 180 That quivers to the passing breeze Is less instinct with thee,— Yet not the meanest worm. That lurks in graves and fattens on the dead, Less shares thy eternal breath. 185 Spirit of Nature! thou Imperishable ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... pacifist, sailing to Europe in his ark of peace, staggered our amazement. Mr. Ford, still the impassioned pacifist, whose aeroplane engines will help to bomb the Hun's conscience into wakefulness, staggers our amazement but commands our admiration. We do not attempt to understand or reconcile his two extremes of conduct, but as fighters we appreciate the courage of soul that made him "about turn" to search for his ideal ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

... hoped to make me feel; I open the line, now clutch Your spit, Sir Scullion—slow your zeal! At the envoi's end, I touch. (He declaims solemnly): Envoi. Prince, pray Heaven for your soul's weal! I move a pace—lo, such! and such! Cut over—feint! (Thrusting): What ho! You reel? (The viscount staggers. Cyrano salutes): At the envoi's end, ...

— Cyrano de Bergerac • Edmond Rostand

... Paris-Verdun-Metz Railroad. Apart from a single narrow-gauge railroad of minor value, which wanders among the hills, climbing at prohibitive grades, Verdun is isolated from the rest of France. Consider what this means in modern war when the amount of ammunition consumed in a day almost staggers belief. Consider what it means when there are a quarter of a million men to be fed and ...

— They Shall Not Pass • Frank H. Simonds

... subject out of my head), the more difficult I find it. If there were only some half-dozen cases, I should not feel the least difficulty; but the generality of the facts of all islands (except one or two) having a considerable part of their productions in common with one or more mainlands utterly staggers me. What a wonderful case of the Epacridae! It is most vexatious, also humiliating, to me that I cannot follow and subscribe to the way in which you strikingly put your view of the case. I look at your facts (about Eucalyptus, etc.) as DAMNING against continental ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

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