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staggering 音標拼音: [st'ægɚɪŋ] a. 蹣跚的,猶豫的,驚人的 蹣跚的,猶豫的,驚人的 staggering adj 1: so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; " 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" [ synonym: { astonishing}, { astounding}, { staggering}, { stupefying}] Stagger \ Stag" ger\ (- g[~ e] r), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Staggered} (- g[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Staggering}.] [ OE. stakeren, Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push, stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. { Stake}, n.] 1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. [ 1913 Webster] Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. " The enemy staggers." -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. [ 1913 Webster] He [ Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. -- Rom. iv. 20. [ 1913 Webster] 151 Moby Thesaurus words for " staggering": amazing, ambling, ambulation, astonishing, astounding, backpacking, breathtaking, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, cautious, choppy, circumspect, claudicant, confounding, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, easy, eccentric, electrifying, erratic, eye- opening, faltering, fitful, flagging, flickering, fluctuating, foot- dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle, going on foot, gradual, guttering, halting, herky- jerky, heteroclite, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, immethodical, inconstant, indolent, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jarring, jerky, jolting, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, lurching, marching, mind- boggling, miraculous, moderate, nonuniform, overwhelming, patchy, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, rambling, relaxed, reluctant, rough, sauntering, scrappy, shocking, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow- crawling, slow- foot, slow- going, slow- legged, slow- moving, slow- paced, slow- poky, slow- running, slow- sailing, slow- stepped, sluggish, snail- paced, snaillike, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spectacular, sporadic, spotty, startling, strange, strolling, stunning, surprising, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, turtlelike, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unhurried, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, waddling, walking, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly, wonderful, wondrous
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