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Nouns (3)

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lurch, stumble, stagger

n. an unsteady uneven gait

Verbs (10)

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v. astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"

v. astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"

stagger, flounder

v. walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen

v. walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

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Fuzzynyms (90)

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v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

fail, go wrong, miscarry

v. be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

bumble, stutter, stammer, falter

v. speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

v. behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"

v. fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

worsen, decline

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

drop

v. fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death; "shop til you drop"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way

waste, waste away, diminish

v. become diminished

v. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

decline, go down, wane

v. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

v. become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

fall

v. move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"

slip

v. move easily; "slip into something comfortable"

stop

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

v. delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"

startle, jump, start

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

v. alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"

v. go down; "The roof declines here"

teeter, seesaw, totter

v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

v. move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road"

v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

capsize, turtle, turn turtle

v. overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over

v. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"

careen, wobble, shift, tilt

v. move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

weave, wind, thread, meander, wander

v. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

v. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way

v. stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"

v. move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

fall

v. move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"

slip

v. move easily; "slip into something comfortable"

draw

v. move or go steadily or gradually; "The ship drew near the shore"

pull

v. operate when rowing a boat; "pull the oars"

startle, jump, start

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

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