• Staggering

    Verb

    1. Present participle of stagger

    Full definition of staggering

    Adjective

    staggering

    1. Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.The army suffered a staggering defeat.

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    Noun

    staggering

    (plural staggerings)
    1. The motion of one who staggers.
      • 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)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 ...
    2. That which staggers something or somebody.
      • Ebenezer ErskineBut 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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