Synonyms of the word

stagger

• n. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
• n. (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden…
• n. Bewilderment; perplexity.
• n. The spacing out of various actions over time.
• n. (motorsport) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It…
• n. (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one…
• v. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
• v. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
• v. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different,…

arrange

• v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
• v. To put in order, to organize.
• v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
• v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

careen

• v. (nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles…
• v. (nautical) To tilt on one side.
• v. To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
• v. To tilt or lean while in motion.
• v. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead.

distribute

• v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

flounder

• n. A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European…
• n. (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
• n. A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
• v. (intransitive) To flop around as a fish out of water.
• v. (intransitive) To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
• v. (intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.

gait

• n. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
• n. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
• v. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

keel

• n. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) Sometimes, a rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship…
• n. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane,…
• n. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
• n. A material similar to chalk or crayon used to mark pavement.
• n. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral…
• n. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens…
• n. A brewer's cooling vat.
• v. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall.
• v. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
• v. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of kill.

lurch

• n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
• v. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
• v. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
• n. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
• n. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
• v. (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
• v. (obsolete) To steal; to rob.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overpower

• v. (transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.
• v. (transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.

overtake

• v. To pass a more slowly moving object.
• v. (economics) To become greater than something else.
• v. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

overwhelm

• v. To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• v. To overpower, crush.
• v. To overpower emotionally.
• v. To cause to surround, to cover.
• n. The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

reel

• n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
• n. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
• n. (textiles) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen…
• n. (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine,…
• n. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
• v. To wind on a reel.
• v. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
• v. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
• v. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
• v. (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
• v. To make or cause to reel.
• v. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
• v. To be in shock.
• v. (obsolete) To roll.

stumble

• n. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
• n. An error or blunder.
• n. A clumsy walk.
• v. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
• v. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon,…

swag

• v. (intransitive and transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.
• v. (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
• v. (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
• n. (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
• n. A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
• n. (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
• n. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.
• n. (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
• n. (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions.
• n. (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and…
• n. (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
• n. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
• v. (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
• v. To transport stolen goods.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

whelm

• v. To cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.
• v. To overcome with emotion.
• v. (obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.