stagger
Verb (intransitive):
- To walk, move, or stand unsteadily, as if about to fall, often due to weakness, dizziness, or carrying a heavy load.
- To proceed in a hesitant, faltering, or shocked manner.
Verb (transitive):
- To cause someone to walk or move unsteadily; to cause to reel or totter.
- To astonish, deeply shock, or overwhelm someone.
- To arrange events, objects, or timing so they do not occur simultaneously or are evenly spaced.
Noun:
- An unsteady, swaying, or reeling movement or gait.
Verb (intransitive):
- The exhausted hiker began to stagger under the weight of his backpack.
- He staggered out of the smoky building, coughing and disoriented.
Verb (transitive - meaning: to shock/overwhelm):
- The sheer cost of the repairs staggered the homeowner.
- I was staggered by the news of her sudden resignation.
Verb (transitive - meaning: to arrange alternately):
- The manager decided to stagger the lunch breaks to keep the office staffed.
- Stagger the tiles as you lay them for a stronger pattern.
Noun:
- He walked with a pronounced stagger after the long run.
"to stagger under the weight of something": To struggle to carry or bear a heavy physical or metaphorical burden.
- The small company staggered under the weight of its new debt.
"staggered by/at something": To be profoundly shocked or amazed by something.
- The jury was staggered by the brutality of the evidence.
Staggering (adjective): So shocking, astonishing, or large as to be overwhelming.
- The project required a staggering amount of resources.
Staggeringly (adverb): In an astonishing or overwhelming manner.
- The view from the summit was staggeringly beautiful.
- Verb (to walk unsteadily): Totter, reel, lurch, wobble.
- Verb (to astonish): Astound, amaze, stun, flabbergast.
- Verb (to arrange alternately): Alternate, space out, offset.
(Note: "stagger" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically conveyed through its direct use as a verb with prepositions like "under," "by," or "at.")
- In/into a stagger: Moving with an unsteady, reeling gait.
- The boxer, dazed from the punch, fell into a stagger.
- (Rare/Technical) Blind staggers: A term for a disease in animals causing loss of coordination. (This is a specialized compound term, not a general idiom).
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an unsteady uneven gait
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astound or overwhelm, as with shock
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She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake
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to arrange in a systematic order
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stagger the chairs in the lecture hall
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walk with great difficulty
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He staggered along in the heavy snow
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walk as if unable to control one's movements
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The drunken man staggered into the room
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