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bestagger

verb

Etymology

From be- + stagger.

  1. derived from stakra — “to push, stagger”
  2. inherited from stakeren
  3. prefixed as bestagger — “be + stagger”

Definitions

  1. To stagger about

    To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.

    • Like a vampire it is rapidly sucking, through our young men, the very financial life blood from this nation, in so much that it bestaggers all efforts to totalize its direful influence.
    • Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both?
    • But the supreme horror comes from the Mitch of Timothy Carhart, who seems to bestride — or bestagger — a stage for the first time.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA