verb [V]
1 [usually +adv./prep.] to walk or move with weak unsteady steps, especially because you are drunk or ill/sick:
She managed to totter back to her seat.
2 to be weak and seem likely to fall:
the tottering walls of the castle * (figurative) a failed attempt to salvage a tottering dictatorship
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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