1 to walk with weak unsteady steps, as if you are about to fall: [V, usually +adv./prep.] The injured woman staggered to her feet. * He staggered home, drunk. * We seem to stagger from one crisis to the next. * (figurative) The company is staggering under the weight of a ｣10m debt * [VN] I managed to stagger the last few steps.
2 to shock or surprise sb very much:
[VN] Her remarks staggered me. * [Vthat] It staggers me that the government is doing nothing about it.
3 [VN] to arrange for events that would normally happen at the same time to start or happen at different times:
There were so many runners, that they had to stagger the start.
stagger noun:
to walk with a stagger
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is stagger a noun, verb, or something else?
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