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tottering

adjective

1 tottering

Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age:
— A tottering skeleton of a horse.

synonym: tottery.

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, ... show more

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

Roget 665: in danger etc. n.; endangered etc. v.; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected ... show more

2 tottering

of structures or institutions Having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse.


Moby thesaurus: Lissajous figure, alternation, ambling, ambulation, anile, back-and-forth, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, collapsing, coming and going, crabbed, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, debilitated, deciduous, declining, declivitous ... show more.

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