staggering
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English
Definitions
verb
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
noun
- The motion of one who staggers.
- That which staggers something or somebody.
- In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort
adjective
- Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.“The army suffered a staggering defeat.”
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