stagger

1. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.Examples: "She began to stagger across the room."; "Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow."; "The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital."intransitive

2. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.Examples: "The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer."; "That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person."transitive

3. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.Examples: "1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation"; "The enemy staggers."intransitive

4. Doubt, waver, be shocked.Examples: "He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief."intransitive

5. Doubt, waver, be shocked.Examples: "He will stagger the committee when he presents his report."; "[W]hoſoever vvill be curious to read the future ſtory of this intricate VVarre (if it be poſsible to compile a ſtory of it) he vvill find himſelfe much ſtagger'd, and put to a kind of riddle; […]"; "Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility."transitive

6. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).transitive

1. (UK) One who attends a stag night.Examples: "Tallinn no longer takes pride in the title of 'favourite destination of British staggers'."UK