Definition of stagger
- n. - To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in
standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to
reel or totter.
- n. - To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- n. - To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less
confident or determined; to hesitate.
- v. t. - To cause to reel or totter.
- v. t. - To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to
make less steady or confident; to shock.
- v. t. - To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median
line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler
seam.
- n. - An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing,
as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in
the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
- n. - A disease of horses and other animals, attended by
reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers;
appopletic or sleepy staggers.
- n. - Bewilderment; perplexity.