stagger

1. To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.

   (intransitive)In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

   She began to stagger across the room.

   wackeln, wanken, taumeln

   шата́тьсяšatátʹsja

2. (transitive)To cause to reel or totter.

   The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.

3. (intransitive)To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

   1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

   The enemy staggers.

4. Doubt, waver, be shocked.

   (intransitive)To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

   zweifeln, wanken

   колеба́тьсяkolebátʹsja

5. (transitive)To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

   He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.

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

   (transitive)To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

7. (transitive)To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.

   We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.

8. (transitive)To schedule in intervals or at different times.

   We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

1. Tom staggered home from the bar.

   ruТом поковылял домой из бара.

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2. Tom staggered out of the room.

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3. The company is attempting to stagger work hours.

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4. Tom staggered into the room, carrying a bottle of beer.

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5. Tom staggered out of the bar with a bottle in his hand.

   deTom torkelte mit einer Flasche in der Hand aus der Kneipe.

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