Verb

(en-verb)

(label) To do things quickly.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.

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, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

(label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.

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(label) To cause to be done quickly.

(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:They hurried him aboard a bark.

(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.

Verb

(en verb)

sway unsteadily, reel, or totter

# In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

She began to stagger across the room.

#* Dryden

Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.

# To cause to reel or totter.

The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.

#* Shakespeare

That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person.

# To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

#* Addison

The enemy staggers .

doubt, waver, be shocked

# To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

#* Bible, Rom. iv. 20

He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.

# To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.

#* Howell

Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered .

#* Burke

Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.

Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856 Etymology] in [[:w:Online Etymology Dictionary, Online Etymology Dictionary]).

# To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

# To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.

We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.

# To schedule in intervals.

We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.