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Staggers

noun

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

An unsteady uneven gait. Synonyms: lurch, stumble.

verb

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

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

Walk with great difficulty. Synonym: flounder.

To arrange in a systematic order. Synonym: distribute.

Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.

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... a mile in the chilling blackness of a mountain storm is to ride five. To face a buffeting wind and a sweep of heavy rain mile after mile and keep a saddle while a horse pauses, halts, starts and staggers, rights himself, gropes painfully for an uncertain foothold among rocks where a bighorn must pick his way, is to test the endurance even of ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... entitled to the privileges of Christian freemen? It was not the act of that government, which in its conscious rectitude "can put ten thousand to flight," but was rather the inexcusable feebleness of a diseased conscience, that staggers off for refuge "when ...

— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams

... a pony that had been seized with an attack of blind staggers, and was now dashing frantically away, with a little basket-cart dragging back and forth at his heels; but in that cart Rob saw ...

— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

... is as pale as the corpse, and staggers a step or two; but when the terrible shock abates, an admiration for his enemy pervades his very soul. It is what he would have done ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... combinations, because in the unlettered void or chaos of his mind there is no obstacle to their coalescing into any shapes they please, it must be confessed that the eloquence of the Scotch is encumbered with an excess of knowledge, that it cannot get on for a crowd of difficulties, that it staggers under a load of topics, that it is so environed in the forms of logic and rhetoric as to be equally precluded from originality or absurdity, from beauty or deformity:—the plea of humanity is lost by going through the process of law, the firm and manly ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

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