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Staggering

adjective

1.

So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm. Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying. "An astounding achievement" , "The amount of money required was staggering" , "Suffered a staggering defeat" , "The figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"

Stagger

verb

(past & past part. staggered; pres. part. staggering)

1.

Walk as if unable to control one's movements. Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag.

2.

Walk with great difficulty. Synonym: flounder.

3.

To arrange in a systematic order. Synonym: distribute.

4.

Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.

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"Staggering" Quotes from Famous Books

... place, but the native servant, before he fled screaming from the house, saw his master fling himself upon the living serpent and grasp it with his hands, and when, later on, others burst into the room and caught him staggering in their arms, they found the second python with its ...

— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome

... Thistle, and as a consequence his studies were neglected. Not that there was much outward difference in him; he still remained fairly sober, although on more than one occasion he was seen leaving the Thorn and Thistle at closing time with staggering footsteps; it never caused him to lose ...

— Tommy • Joseph Hocking

... eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotted eggs Peer restlessly through the light and shadow Of all Springs. Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversations with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house Settling sideways into the grass of an old road; Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom Above a cellar dug into a hill. You are everywhere. You were everywhere. You tapped the window when the preacher preached his sermon, And ran along the road beside the boy going to school. You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking, ...

— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... were passing through her mind Glory had been staggering forward as swiftly as the wind and the burden she carried would allow and she reached the shelter none too soon. The very instant she passed within, the rain came down in torrents and the tiny structure swayed dizzily ...

— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond

... 1814 the kingdom recovered from the depression into which by its loss of territory and its staggering indebtedness it had been plunged, and with the recovery came a revived political spirit as well as a fresh economic stimulus. The sixteen years between the Treaty of Kiel and the revolutionary year 1830 were almost absolutely ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

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