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bestagger en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + stagger.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
   • Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both? 1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34:
   • Like a vampire it is rapidly sucking, through our young men, the very financial life blood from this nation, in so much that it bestaggers all efforts to totalize its direful influence. 1899, Edward A. Tabor, Danger Signals for New Century Manhood - Page 117:
   • But the supreme horror comes from the Mitch of Timothy Carhart, who seems to bestride — or bestagger — a stage for the first time. 1992 April 27, New York Magazine, page 83:

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