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1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements
   "The drunken man staggered into the room";
   - reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen
    
2. Walk with great difficulty
   "He staggered along in the heavy snow";
   - flounder
    
3. To arrange in a systematic order
   "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall";
   - distribute
    
4. Astound or overwhelm, as with shock
   "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"

1. An unsteady uneven gait
   - lurch, stumble

Derived forms: staggered, staggers, staggering

Type of: arrange, gait, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, set up, sweep over, walk, whelm [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Stagger