bestagger
English
Etymology
From be- + stagger.
Verb
bestagger (third-person singular simple present bestaggers, present participle bestaggering, simple past and past participle bestaggered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
- 1899, Edward A. Tabor, Danger Signals for New Century Manhood - Page 117:
- 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.
- 1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34:
- 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?
- 1992, New York Magazine - Apr 27, 1992 - Page 83:
- But the supreme horror comes from the Mitch of Timothy Carhart, who seems to bestride — or bestagger — a stage for the first time.
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Anagrams
- beggarest