noun bewilderment; perplexity.
2. stagger ·vt to cause to reel or totter.
3. stagger ·noun to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
4. stagger ·noun to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
5. stagger ·vt to cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
6. stagger ·vt 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. stagger ·noun a disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
8. stagger ·noun 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.
9. stagger ·noun 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.