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Tottering

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  2. 2
    Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse wordnet
  2. 2
    unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The movement of one who totters.

    "Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of totter form-of, gerund, participle, present

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