Totter

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To sway as if about to fall.
  • intransitive verb. To appear about to collapse.
  • intransitive verb. To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger. synonym: blunder.
  • noun. The act or condition of tottering.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An obsolete or dialectal form of tatter.
  • To stand or walk unsteadily; walk with short vacillating or unsteady steps; be unsteady; stagger.
  • To shake, and threaten collapse; become disorganized or structurally weak and seem ready to fall; become unstable and ready to overbalance or give way.
  • To dangle at the end of a rope; swing on the gallows.
  • Synonyms and
  • Stagger, etc. See reel.
  • To tremble, rock.
  • To shake; impair the stability of; render shaky or unstable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger.
  • intransitive verb. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. an unsteady movement or gait
  • noun. A rag and bone man.
  • verb. To walk,move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
  • verb. To collect junk or scrap.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. walk unsteadily
  • verb. move without being stable, as if threatening to fall
  • verb. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
  • Word Usage
    "But the fact of the matter is, that the Democrats on this sort of teeter totter, that is politics, when the Democrats go up, Republicans go down and vice versa."
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    falter  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move  rock  shake  sway  walk  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Potter  Trotter  blotter  cotter  dotter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Wobbly  decrepit  feeble  forlorn  frail  
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