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单词 tottering
释义
Tottering
vverb.motionmove without being stable, as if threatening to fall
Examples:
  • The drunk man tottered over to our table
Hypernyms:rock shake sway
Inherited Hypernyms:totterrockmove back and forthmove
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s | Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.motionwalk unsteadily
Synset:coggle dodder paddle toddle totter waddle
Examples:
  • small children toddle
Derivationally Related Form:waddlertottererwaddledodderertoddler
Hypernyms:walk
Inherited Hypernyms:toddlewalktravel
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s PP | The children --- to the playground (apply to: paddle, coggle, waddle, dodder, toddle, totter)
vverb.motionmove unsteadily, with a rocking motion
Synset:seesaw teeter totter
Derivationally Related Form:seesaw
Hypernyms:move
Inherited Hypernyms:teetermove
Sentence Frame:Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP
adj satadj.allunsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
Synset:tottery
Examples:
  • a tottering skeleton of a horse
  • a tottery old man
Antonyms:steady
Inherited Hypernyms:tottering
Similar to:unsteady
adj satadj.all(of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse
Examples:
  • a tottering empire
Antonyms:stable
Inherited Hypernyms:tottering
Similar to:unstable
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