tottering Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move without being stable, as if threatening to fall
    totter.
    • The drunk man tottered over to our table
  2. verb walk unsteadily
    totter; waddle; paddle; coggle; dodder; toddle.
    • small children toddle
  3. verb move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
    totter; teeter; seesaw.
  4. adjective satellite unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
    tottery.
    • a tottering skeleton of a horse
    • a tottery old man
  5. adjective satellite (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse
    • a tottering empire

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