Stagger
noun
- 1.
- ដំណើរទ្រតទ្រោត
- 2.
- (A staggering tottering, a staggered arrangement) ដំណើរវិលមុខ, ងោង, ដំណើរញ័រជើង, ដំណើរទ្រេតទ្រោត
Example: The sick man staggered down the payment, staggered his resolution, The problem staggered him.
verb — past tense: staggered ; past participle: staggered ; present participle: staggering ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to move or go unsteadily as if about to fall, to shock deeply, to cause astonishment, to waver in purpose) ដើរទ្រេតទ្រោត
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ដើរទ្រតទ្រោតច្របូកច្របល់, រៀបចំមិនអោយកើតឡើងជាន់គ្នា
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to make stagger, to affect strongly, to set alternately) stagger the mind ធ្វើអោយហួសនិស្ស័យ, stagger lunch hours កំណត់ពេលតៗគ្នា
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
verb — past tense: staggered ; past participle: staggered ; present participle: staggering ;
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- 3.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to reel or totter.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- 6.
- (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.
- 1.
- Bewilderment, perplexity