1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements
   "The drunken man staggered into the room";
   - reel, keel, lurch, careen
    
2. Walk with great difficulty
   "He staggered along in the heavy snow";
   - flounder
    
3. Spread out or arrange at different times or positions
   "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
   "His stagger betrayed his intoxication";
   - lurch, stumble

Derived forms: staggers, staggering, staggered

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

Encyclopedia: Stagger