staggers
/ (ˈstæɡəz) /
a form of vertigo associated with decompression sickness
Also called: blind staggers a disease of horses and some other domestic animals characterized by a swaying unsteady gait, caused by infection, toxins, or lesions of the central nervous system
Words Nearby staggers
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
How to use staggers in a sentence
Wherever life has not died out, it staggers to its feet again.
McDonald staggers through the crowd – to run off stage and get a fix – and nearly tumbles onto a table.
Audra for the Win: Why Audra McDonald Must Win Tony for Best Actress | Daniel Gross | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe whole business of when you release movies still staggers me.
‘Hocus Pocus’ Turns 20: Meet the Voice Behind Binx the Talking Cat | Kevin Fallon | October 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn time a freeman bursts through, with perspyration poorin' down his nose, hurls his suffrage at th' judge an' staggers out.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneAnd the fact that Maynebrace is now an admiral and staggers only a captain doesn't improve matters.
The Dreadnought of the Air | Percy F. Westerman
Like one roused from some strange stupor, Frank staggers to his feet.
The Diamond Coterie | Lawrence L. LynchWell, I believe we can't venture to decide this morning (he staggers) about the shade.
We will load the back of this Mohican until he staggers under our bounty, and dispatch him after my young men.
The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper
Browse