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单词 totter
释义 tot·ter
I. \ˈtäd.ə(r), -ätə-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English toteren, totren; perhaps akin to Old English tealtrian to waver, totter — more at tilt
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : to be indecisive : waver
 < many likelihoods … which hung so tottering in the balance — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. : to oscillate or lean dizzily : shimmy, sway
  < tottered and fell forward upon her bicycle — Maurice Hewlett >
  < buildings were still tottering and flames were raging — D.D.S.Pool >
 b. : to become unstable : threaten to collapse
  < so many thrones had tottered to their fall — Robert Grant †1940 >
  < virtue could seem momentarily to totter — Louis Kronenberger >
3. : to move unsteadily : stagger, wobble
 < weak with fever, he tottered to the window — Jean Stafford >
transitive verb
: to cause to totter
 < tottered walls, gates and circuses — P.E.Deutschman >
II. noun
(-s)
1. New England : seesaw
2. : an unsteady gait : wobble
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