A Quick and Simple Dictionary

stagger

1. Noun.  An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
2. Noun.  A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
3. Noun.  bewilderment; perplexity.
4. Verb.  (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
5. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
6. Verb.  (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
7. Verb.  (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
8. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
11. Verb.  (transitive) To schedule in intervals.