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Tottery

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Adjective

1. tottering, tottery

unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

Example Sentences:
'a tottering skeleton of a horse'
'a tottery old man'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tottery

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verb (intransitive)
1. 
to walk or move in an unsteady manner, as from old age
2. 
to sway or shake as if about to fall
3. 
to be failing, unstable, or precarious
noun
4. 
the act or an instance of tottering

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Tottery

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verb intransitive
1. 
a. 
to rock or shake as if about to fall; be unsteady
b. 
to be on the point of failure or collapse
2. 
to be unsteady on one's feet; stagger
noun
3. 
an unsteady walk or movement

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tottery

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intr.v. tot·tered, tot·ter·ing, tot·ters
1.
a. To sway as if about to fall.
b. To appear about to collapse: an empire that had begun to totter.
2. To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger. See Synonyms at blunder.
n.
The act or condition of tottering.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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