TOTTERING Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈtä-tə-riŋ

as in shaking

marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements after the accident, she was only able to take a few tottering steps at a time

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verb

present participle of totter

as in staggering

to move forward while swaying from side to side tottered around the house as she practiced walking in high heels

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as in faltering

to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side the figurine tottered precariously for a moment before falling off the shelf

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An economy teetering on collapse, US sanctions, the pandemic, shortages of medicine and food, a failing electrical grid, and the economic and political choices of the Cuban state.

Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
There are images of students teetering on stilts, of kids who look too small to be there playing with toy soldiers in a puddle of milk.

Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024

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