| 单词 | tottering |
| 释义 | tottering (once / 1844 pages) adj WORD FAMILY tottering: totteringly+/totter: tottered, totterer, tottering, totters, tottery USAGE EXAMPLESCreditors are asking the government to allow the auction of delinquent debtors’ properties to prop up the country’s tottering banks. New York Times(Oct 31, 2016) McKinley has been tottering since straining his groin early in training camp, though you would never know it based on his impact. Los Angeles Times(Oct 25, 2016) Mr Primus notes that with the court tottering on an ideological divide, it takes only one newcomer to push it left or right. Economist(Sep 15, 2016) 1adj unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age a tottering skeleton of a horse Syn tottery unsteady subject to change or variation 2adj (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse a tottering empire Syn unstable lacking stability or fixity or firmness |
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