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stagger

Halting vs Stagger - What's the difference?

halting | stagger |


As verbs the difference between halting and stagger

is that halting is while stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

As an adjective halting

is prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

As a noun stagger is

an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

Stagger vs Stasis - What's the difference?

stagger | stasis |


As nouns the difference between stagger and stasis

is that stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man while stasis is stasis.

As a verb stagger

is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

Stagger vs Dodder - What's the difference?

stagger | dodder |


As a noun stagger

is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

As a verb stagger

is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

As a proper noun dodder is

a river in ireland, a tributary of the liffey.

Balk vs Stagger - What's the difference?

balk | stagger |


As nouns the difference between balk and stagger

is that balk is ridge, an unplowed strip of land while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

As verbs the difference between balk and stagger

is that balk is (archaic) to pass over or by or balk can be to indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring while stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

Wave vs Stagger - What's the difference?

wave | stagger |


In intransitive terms the difference between wave and stagger

is that wave is to have an undulating or wavy form while stagger is to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

In transitive terms the difference between wave and stagger

is that wave is to signal (someone or something) with a waving movement while stagger is multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

Budge vs Stagger - What's the difference?

budge | stagger | Related terms |

Budge is a related term of stagger.


In lang=en terms the difference between budge and stagger

is that budge is to move while stagger is multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856[http://wwwetymonlinecom/indexphp?term=stagger etymology] in ).

As verbs the difference between budge and stagger

is that budge is to move while stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

As nouns the difference between budge and stagger

is that budge is a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

As an adjective budge

is (obsolete) brisk; stirring; jocund or budge can be (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics.

Lope vs Stagger - What's the difference?

lope | stagger | Related terms |

Lope is a related term of stagger.


As a proper noun lope

is .

As a noun stagger is

an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

As a verb stagger is

sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

Stagger vs Confuse - What's the difference?

stagger | confuse | Related terms |

Stagger is a related term of confuse.


As verbs the difference between stagger and confuse

is that stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.

As a noun stagger

is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

Stagger vs Straggle - What's the difference?

stagger | straggle | Related terms |


As nouns the difference between stagger and straggle

is that stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man while straggle is the act of straggling.

As verbs the difference between stagger and straggle

is that stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter while straggle is to stray from the road, course or line of march.

Traipse vs Stagger - What's the difference?

traipse | stagger | Related terms |


As verbs the difference between traipse and stagger

is that traipse is to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

As nouns the difference between traipse and stagger

is that traipse is a long or tiring walk while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

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