stagger

Universal Words verb 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