staggered

staggered
Synonyms and related words:
agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bendy, bewildered, bewitched, bowled down, breathless, captivated, chevronwise, chevrony, confounded, crankled, crooked, curvy, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, electrified, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, flexuous, gaping, gauping, gazing, hairpin, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, jarred, jolted, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, shaken, shocked, shook, spellbound, staring, startled, stupefied, surprised, taken aback, thunderstruck, twisty, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

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  • Staggered — Stagger Stag ger ( g[ e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Staggered} ( g[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Staggering}.] [OE. stakeren, Icel. stakra to push, to stagger, fr. staka to punt, push, stagger; cf. OD. staggeren to stagger. Cf. {Stake}, n.] 1. To move to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • staggered — adjective a) referring to something that has been arranged in a way that is not uniform The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years. b) Astonished, taken aback …   Wiktionary

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