staggers

/ (ˈstæɡəz) /

noun (functioning as singular or plural)

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

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a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides.

Worn down by dullness, tedious repetition.

unproductive; unfruitful

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Wherever life has not died out, it staggers to its feet again.
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The little one staggers under it, leaning far forward to lessen the direct traction over her forehead.
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He has already reached the border of the wood; he staggers—the poison is doing its work.
The Forest Exiles|Mayne Reid

But perhaps it is the unprecedented birth of a body from a virgin that staggers you?
The City of God, Volume I|Aurelius Augustine
Others maintain that, on the contrary, but for him the bird would have died of a disease akin to the staggers.
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But the second step,—the making use of a foreign substance or object in the way described,—that is what staggers one.
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