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Verb stagger has 4 senses
- stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen - walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- stagger, flounder - walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
--2 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children stagger to the playground
- stagger, distribute - to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
--3 is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- stagger - astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
--4 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
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