An unsteady uneven gait.

synoniemen: lurch, stumble.

Nederlands: wankel
Pools: zataczanie się

Walk as if unable to control one's movements:
— The drunken man staggered into the room.

synoniemen: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag.

Roget 824: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.    stimulate; exsuscitate^†; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon etc. (incite) 615; hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.    fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.    stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.    absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.    fascinate; enrapture etc. (give pleasure) 829.    agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.    irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury etc. (wrath) 900.    be excited etc. adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill etc. (feel) 821; mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad etc. (passion) 825.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 870: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised etc. adj.; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar^†; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank etc. (disappointment) 509; tombe des nues [Fr.]; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.    not be able to account for etc. (unintelligible) 519; not know whether one stands on one's head or one's not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels.    surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.    take by surprise etc. (be unexpected) 508.    be wonderful etc. adj.; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 616: dissuade, dehort^†, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.    disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back etc. (restrain) 751; render averse etc. 603; repel; turn aside etc. (deviation) 279; wean from; act as a drag etc. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate etc. 766.    disenchant, disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) 527.1. ... meer laten zien

Roget 508: not expect etc. 507; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate etc. 481; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon.    be unexpected etc. adj.; come unawares etc. adv.; turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach [S. Afr.].    pounce upon, spring a mine upon.    surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound etc. (strike with wonder) 870.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 485: disbelieve, discredit; not believe etc. 484; misbelieve^†; refuse to admit etc. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe etc. (incredulity) 487.    doubt; be doubtful etc. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to etc. adj.; diffide^†; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts.    demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.    hang in suspense, hang in doubt.    throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny etc. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize^†.    startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 315: be agitated &c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire^†, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort [U.S.]; squirm.    throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.    ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.    toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.    agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 275: move slowly etc. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle etc. (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble^†, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate^†, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire etc. (be late) 133.    retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 314: oscillate; vibrate, librate^†; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble^†, wabble^†; dangle, swag.    fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down etc. adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate etc. 605; teeter [U.S.].    brandish, shake, flourish.    ... meer laten zien

Walk with great difficulty:
— He staggered along in the heavy snow.

synoniem: flounder.

To arrange in a systematic order:
— Stagger the chairs in the lecture hall.

synoniem: distribute.

Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.

Nederlands: duizelen, suizebollen

A male deer, especially an adult male red deer.

synoniem: hart.

Roget 808: nonpayment; default, defalcation; protest, repudiation; application of the sponge^†; whitewashing.    insolvency, bankruptcy, failure; insufficiency etc. 640; run upon a bank; overdrawn account.    waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check, bogus cheque, rubber check.    bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 366: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.    beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.    [major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.    [microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule etc. 193.    [reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick^†.    [amphibians] frog, toad.    [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.    [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.    [arthropods] tardigrade, spider.    [classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped; [web-footed animal] webfoot.    flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae [Lat.]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock^†, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.    [domesticated mammals] horse etc. (beast of burden) 271; cattle, kine^†, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin^†; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot^†; tag, teg^†; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.    [dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.    [cats--generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin^†; gib cat, tom cat.    [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar^†.    [birds] bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet^†, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine^†, cushat^†, cygnet, ringdove^†, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.    [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 373: man, male, he, him; manhood etc. (adolescence) 131; gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight^†, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband etc. (married man) 903; Mr.   , mister; boy etc. (youth) 129.    [Male animal] cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat^†, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot^†.    androgen.    homosexual, gay, queen [Slang].    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: hertenbok

Adult male deer.

Nederlands: hertebok, hertenbok

Attend a dance or a party without a female companion.

Give away information about somebody.

synoniemen: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, tell on.

Nederlands: aangeven, bedriegen, misleiden, verklappen, verklikken, verlullen, verraden

Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.

synoniemen: sleuth, snoop, spy.

Nederlands: spioneren