stagger

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
2. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
3. Bewilderment; perplexity.
4. The spacing out of various actions over time.
5. The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
6. The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
2. (transitive) To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
3. (intransitive) To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
4. (intransitive) Doubt, waver, be shocked.
5. (transitive) Doubt, waver, be shocked.
6. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
7. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
8. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

Concepts

tituber

chanceler

trébucher

stupéfier

hésiter

abasourdir

barguigner

consterner

étonner

vaciller

zigzaguer

en chancelant

en titubant

époustoufler

frapper de stupeur

sidérer

battre ou mettre en carène

chambranler

atterrer

bouleverser

chancelant

échelonner

flageolement

instable

renverser

flet

étourdi

étaler

Synonymes

reel

totter

sway

lurch

wobble

stumble

shake

🫨

waver

stun

teeter

falter

tremble

walk unsteadily

dumbfound

wabble

be unsteady

amaze

careen

flounder

rock

🪨

puzzle

astonish

stupefy

swag

keel

unsteady

vacillate

hesitate

startle

appal

dodder

astound

whirl

limp

bewilder

dismay

take aback

distribute

hobble

disconcert

nonplus

alarm

trip

surprise

be lopsided

roll

perplex

space out

tilt

swing

stamp

mystify

oscillate

bemuse

staggering

motion

mount

move

numb

orchestrate

order

organise

organize

overlap

pitch

postpone

program

provide

pulse

put off

put up

run-out

sag

sequence

shaking

🫨

shamble

shillyshally

shock

⚡

stage

stagnate

stir

straighten

stumbling

swoon

tergiversate

throb

throw

tipsy

feel giddy

topple

tottering

turn over

turn round

undulate

unravel

unsettle

upset

waddle

wag

zigzag

make mistakes

move to and fro

roll about

shake about

shake down

sway about

sway to and fro

toss about

unsteady on one’s feet

shake from side to side

tee up

unclutter

titubate

accommodate

be tottery

adjust

alternate

alternation

alternative

arrange

array

baffle

beat

befog

befuddle

blunder

boggle

book

📖

bounce

caucus

collate

commutation

commute

concussion

confound

confuse

coordinate

crisscross

daze

delay

destabilize

discomfit

discompose

dispose

dizzy

💫

dress

👗

faint

fall

fix

fix up

flabbergast

floor

fluctuate

flummox

fly

✈️

freak

hobbling

hold

hopping

interchange

interlace

interleave

jitter

jitterbug

jump

jumping

kick

line up

marshal

Traductions

schwanken

vacilar

tambalear

taumeln

wanken

torkeln

wankelen

titubear

tambaleo

staffeln

🎓

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈstæɡə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: stageren

Appartenant à danois: stagre

In summary

From Middle English stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.