Staggering vs Stumbling - What's the difference?
staggering | stumbling |
The motion of one who staggers.
* 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
That which staggers something or somebody.
* (Ebenezer Erskine)
The motion of one who stumbles.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Alexander Star, title=I Feel Good, work=New York Times
, passage=Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn. }}
Stumbling is a synonym of staggering.
As verbs the difference between staggering and stumbling
is that staggering is present participle of lang=en while stumbling is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between staggering and stumbling
is that staggering is the motion of one who staggers while stumbling is the motion of one who stumbles.As an adjective staggering
is incredible, overwhelming, amazing.staggering
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(en noun)- There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
- But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory
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