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staggered

verb

Past of stagger

  • The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.

Exact(60)

He was staggered at the bill, because there was a valid disc in the window.

I'm staggered by my own redundancy – washing the bucket takes seconds.

Visitors might be dazzled by the beauty, staggered at the effort that goes into getting even a single pearl, or fascinated by the stories behind the pieces.

When they were making Pride, Beresford and director Matthew Warchus were staggered to discover that hardly any of the younger villagers in the Dulais valley in South Wales, where the events took place, knew what the miners' strike was.

His body was ablaze as he staggered in circles in mute agony.

Maria Eagle MP, shadow transport secretary, said: "Passengers facing annual fare rises of up to 11% will be staggered that our rail industry could be so out of touch and doesn't recognise how times have changed.

Phelps staggered on to the podium, so tired he had to lean against the wall to stop himself falling down, then got back in the pool and destroyed the field in his 100m butterfly semi-final, finishing in the fifth-fastest time in history – he was a lot slower when he won the final the next night.

He dropped papers relating to his wedding as he staggered injured along Bathhurst Gardens, the road where he lived with fiancee Adele Eastman.

"It hasn't been staggered; it's just overload.

And I'll be staggered if Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber could summon up even less chemistry than Pat Morita and Jay Leno managed in their godawful 1989 action comedy Collision Course.

Senators serve staggered six-year terms: every two years, a third of them come up for re-election.

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