staggers

/ (ˈstæɡəz) /

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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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How to use staggers in a sentence

Wherever life has not died out, it staggers to its feet again.
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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|DAILY BEAST
The whole business of when you release movies still staggers me.
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In time a freeman bursts through, with perspyration poorin' down his nose, hurls his suffrage at th' judge an' staggers out.
Mr. Dooley Says|Finley Dunne

And 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. Lynch
Well, I believe we can't venture to decide this morning (he staggers) about the shade.
Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889|Various
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

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