verb
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
- usage: "The drunken man staggered into the room"
- Walk with great difficulty.
- usage: "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
- To arrange in a systematic order.
- usage: "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
- synonyms: stagger, distribute
- Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.
- usage: "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
- synonyms: stagger
adjective
- So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm.
- usage: "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
- synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying
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