Titubate vs Titubant - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To stagger
(obsolete) To rock or roll, like a curved body on a plane.
To stutter, stammer
:* 1993': They must let us alone here, we govern ourselves, we are by way of being totally autonomous. (The plethora of t’s there made his tongue '''titubate , but it was a brave show.) — Anthony Burgess, ''A Dead Man in Deptford
stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
* 1896 , , Macaire , act i, scene 2 (stage directions)
* 1928 , Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica? , volume 3, page 65
* 1948 , Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies? , page 253
Titubate is a related term of titubant.
As a verb titubate
is (obsolete) to stagger.As an adjective titubant is
stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy.titubate
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Verb
(en-verb)titubant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- To these, by the door L. C., the'' CURATE ''and the'' NOTARY, ''arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant
- His walk had become titubant .
- her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant
