stagger
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(verb) astound or overwhelm; "These poor people are staggered by the drain on their savings" |
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Related Words: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, stupify, trounce |
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(verb) astound or overwhelm, as with shock: "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake" |
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Related Words: overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
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(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements |
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Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag |
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Related Words: walk |
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(verb) walk with great difficulty; as in snow or mud |
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Synonyms: flounder |
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Related Words: walk |
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(verb) to arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" |
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Synonyms: distribute, stack |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road" |
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Synonyms: lurch |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(noun) an unsteady uneven gait |
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Synonyms: lurch, stumble |
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Related Words: gait |
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