Entry Word: stagger

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to move forward while swaying from side to side <I was so tired last night that I just staggered upstairs to bed without eating dinner>

Synonyms careen, dodder, lurch, reel, teeter, totter, waddle

Related Words rock, sway, weave, wobble; clump, flounder, lumber, lump, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, stamp, stomp, stumble, tramp, tromp

2 to show uncertainty about the right course of action <a daunting problem that would make even the most decisive person stagger> — see hesitate