Stagger

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

(2): ( n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; - often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

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

(4): ( n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.

(5): ( n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.

(6): ( v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

(7): ( v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.

(8): ( n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.

(9): ( v. t.) 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.

King James Dictionary [2]

Stagger,

1. To reel to vacillate to move to one side and the other in standing or walking not to stand or walk with steadiness.

Deep was the wound he staggerd with the blow.

2. To fail to cease to stand firm to begin to give way.

The enemy staggers.

3. To hesitate to begin to doubt and waver in purpose to become less confident or determined.

Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.  Romans 4 .

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