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verb ˈtɒtəˈtɑdər 1no object, with adverbial Move in a feeble or unsteady way. a hunched figure tottering down the path Example sentencesExamples - In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday.
- A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair.
- I have seen legends totter across stages, forget their lines, prove themselves incapable of holding a tune.
- Only barely invigorated by government policy, the economy totters towards the precipice.
- Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure.
- Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele.
- Seventy-nine-year-old Marie totters in, held up by two of the crew.
- Her brown eyes were three times magnified and bobbed around behind the octagonal glass like dying goldfish, staring me down as she tottered down the aisle to the bathroom for the seventeenth time.
- The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
- Making sure no one saw her in such a weakened state, she tottered slowly toward her room.
- Moving faster than she had thought he could, he tottered out of the room, and seconds later, another set of doors burst open and boys began flooding in.
- Waiting in line, the most original force in modern hip-hop vanishes into his surroundings as his girlfriend totters at his side. Nobody seems to recognise him.
- Peter knew many weren't happy with the decision, and he watched with apprehension as one of the most elderly men in the village tottered up to the platform to speak.
- When the doors eventually open and the audience - no exaggeration - totter in, the candidate had moved next door, leaving only a whiff of cigar smoke hanging in the air.
- With enough blood collected a young warrior caked the wound with fresh dung and the animal was released to totter away on unsteady legs but otherwise unharmed.
- With her lowered head and stooped shoulders, she totters across the stage.
- I watch, with my heart in my mouth, as Norman totters along the walkway but ironically, this time, it is not the Yorkshireman who has a problem but a strapping 25-year-old Swede who can go no further because of vertigo.
- After a while the passenger door opened, and an elderly lady tottered out.
- Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
- We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
Synonyms teeter, walk unsteadily, stagger, wobble, stumble, dodder, shuffle, shamble, falter, reel, toddle, hobble, sway, roll, lurch - 1.1usually as adjective tottering (of a building) shake or rock as if about to collapse.
Example sentencesExamples - Spectators trained digital cameras and cellphone cameras on the structure and waited as huge cracks appeared and the building tottered.
- Is that tottering mass of concrete really a clothes shop?
- The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself.
- ‘I've no time for garnishes or tottering towers,’ he says.
- The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
- It resembled a rectangular crown, a small tottering tower of points and bars rising from the camel's back.
- My diligent inspection of every single isolated bay, every last tottering Spanish tower had been observed by both the customs posts and the hashish smuggling gangs with wry detachment.
- Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
- The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
Synonyms shake, sway, tremble, quiver, teeter, shudder, judder, rock, quake, reel, lurch vibrate, oscillate - 1.2 Be insecure or about to fail.
the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis Example sentencesExamples - Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
- It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left.
- The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster.
- On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration.
- These books examine notions of government and justice in post-colonial times and throw some light on why some Pacific nations seemingly totter from one crisis to another.
- When her side was tottering on the brink of defeat it was her powers of persuasion which lifted them that one vital step.
- Empires may totter, armies may battle, politicians may plot, but it is family relations which provide the most dramatic material.
- Buffeted by violent economic crises and challenged by powerful socialist movements that seemed everywhere on the move, the system often seemed to totter.
- All three pillars of the global economy have not tottered simultaneously for a decade.
- Today that average price totters at a toweringly daft £94,000.
- If we aren't careful and prudent it could be that the club finds itself in the horrible predicament it found itself last season, when the club tottered on the brink of extinction.
- The symbols of American capitalism and military imperialism have been struck from the skies, the financial markets have been spun into chaos, and the global economy has been sent tottering to the brink of recession.
- The empire itself would totter on for a few more decades, but Rome would never be the same.
- The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat.
- It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction.
- ‘The pressing concern of the moment is how to prevent Lebanon from tottering over the brink of the abyss,’ said the English-language Daily Star.
- It's a piece that totters constantly on the brink of self-parody, but Webley attacks it with such savage gusto that it ends up being an album stand-out.
- Despite all its natural resources and the natural resilience of its many peoples, Africa is a continent that totters on the edge of disaster as war, famine, disease, greed and corruption threaten to overwhelm it.
- The film is a fabulous concoction and shows the Islamic world tottering on the brink of an abyss.
- Or, say the liberals, we waste our money on video games and trashy novels while the fine arts totter on the brink of extinction.
Synonyms be unstable, be unsteady, be shaky, be insecure, be precarious, be on the point of collapse, falter informal wobble
noun ˈtɒtəˈtɑdər A feeble or unsteady gait. Example sentencesExamples - Call it a slight totter in an approximately forward direction if you must but it feels like a giant leap to me.
- You may say that none of this sounds like a leap forward, more like a totter backwards.
Synonyms unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren 'to swing' (the original sense in English). Rhymes blotter, cotta, cottar, dotter, gotta, hotter, jotter, knotter, otter, pelota, plotter, potter, ricotta, rotter, spotter, squatter, terracotta, trotter nounˈtɒtəˈtɑdər British informal A person who makes a living by salvaging saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps. Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning Example sentencesExamples - 25 years ago Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning, refuse collection day.
Origin Late 19th century: from tot3. verbˈtɑdərˈtädər 1no object, with adverbial Move in a feeble or unsteady way. a hunched figure tottering down the path Example sentencesExamples - With enough blood collected a young warrior caked the wound with fresh dung and the animal was released to totter away on unsteady legs but otherwise unharmed.
- Only barely invigorated by government policy, the economy totters towards the precipice.
- Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure.
- A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair.
- I have seen legends totter across stages, forget their lines, prove themselves incapable of holding a tune.
- The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
- I watch, with my heart in my mouth, as Norman totters along the walkway but ironically, this time, it is not the Yorkshireman who has a problem but a strapping 25-year-old Swede who can go no further because of vertigo.
- Waiting in line, the most original force in modern hip-hop vanishes into his surroundings as his girlfriend totters at his side. Nobody seems to recognise him.
- Making sure no one saw her in such a weakened state, she tottered slowly toward her room.
- Seventy-nine-year-old Marie totters in, held up by two of the crew.
- After a while the passenger door opened, and an elderly lady tottered out.
- When the doors eventually open and the audience - no exaggeration - totter in, the candidate had moved next door, leaving only a whiff of cigar smoke hanging in the air.
- Peter knew many weren't happy with the decision, and he watched with apprehension as one of the most elderly men in the village tottered up to the platform to speak.
- Her brown eyes were three times magnified and bobbed around behind the octagonal glass like dying goldfish, staring me down as she tottered down the aisle to the bathroom for the seventeenth time.
- With her lowered head and stooped shoulders, she totters across the stage.
- We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
- Moving faster than she had thought he could, he tottered out of the room, and seconds later, another set of doors burst open and boys began flooding in.
- Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele.
- In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday.
- Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
Synonyms teeter, walk unsteadily, stagger, wobble, stumble, dodder, shuffle, shamble, falter, reel, toddle, hobble, sway, roll, lurch - 1.1usually as adjective tottering (of a building) shake or rock as if about to collapse.
Example sentencesExamples - The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself.
- Spectators trained digital cameras and cellphone cameras on the structure and waited as huge cracks appeared and the building tottered.
- The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
- The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
- It resembled a rectangular crown, a small tottering tower of points and bars rising from the camel's back.
- My diligent inspection of every single isolated bay, every last tottering Spanish tower had been observed by both the customs posts and the hashish smuggling gangs with wry detachment.
- ‘I've no time for garnishes or tottering towers,’ he says.
- Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
- Is that tottering mass of concrete really a clothes shop?
Synonyms shake, sway, tremble, quiver, teeter, shudder, judder, rock, quake, reel, lurch - 1.2 Be insecure or about to fail.
the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis Example sentencesExamples - Or, say the liberals, we waste our money on video games and trashy novels while the fine arts totter on the brink of extinction.
- Despite all its natural resources and the natural resilience of its many peoples, Africa is a continent that totters on the edge of disaster as war, famine, disease, greed and corruption threaten to overwhelm it.
- Today that average price totters at a toweringly daft £94,000.
- The empire itself would totter on for a few more decades, but Rome would never be the same.
- If we aren't careful and prudent it could be that the club finds itself in the horrible predicament it found itself last season, when the club tottered on the brink of extinction.
- It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction.
- It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left.
- The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster.
- The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat.
- The film is a fabulous concoction and shows the Islamic world tottering on the brink of an abyss.
- When her side was tottering on the brink of defeat it was her powers of persuasion which lifted them that one vital step.
- ‘The pressing concern of the moment is how to prevent Lebanon from tottering over the brink of the abyss,’ said the English-language Daily Star.
- Empires may totter, armies may battle, politicians may plot, but it is family relations which provide the most dramatic material.
- Buffeted by violent economic crises and challenged by powerful socialist movements that seemed everywhere on the move, the system often seemed to totter.
- The symbols of American capitalism and military imperialism have been struck from the skies, the financial markets have been spun into chaos, and the global economy has been sent tottering to the brink of recession.
- It's a piece that totters constantly on the brink of self-parody, but Webley attacks it with such savage gusto that it ends up being an album stand-out.
- Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
- On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration.
- All three pillars of the global economy have not tottered simultaneously for a decade.
- These books examine notions of government and justice in post-colonial times and throw some light on why some Pacific nations seemingly totter from one crisis to another.
Synonyms be unstable, be unsteady, be shaky, be insecure, be precarious, be on the point of collapse, falter
nounˈtɑdərˈtädər A feeble or unsteady gait. Example sentencesExamples - Call it a slight totter in an approximately forward direction if you must but it feels like a giant leap to me.
- You may say that none of this sounds like a leap forward, more like a totter backwards.
Synonyms unsteady movement, totter, teeter, sway
Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren ‘to swing’ (the original sense in English). nounˈtɑdərˈtädər British informal A person who makes a living by salvaging salable items from garbage cans or piles of waste. Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning Example sentencesExamples - 25 years ago Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning, refuse collection day.
Origin Late 19th century: from tot. |