tottering
Meaning of tottering
adjective
- (of a person's steps) feeble or unsteady.
she swayed on her feet and took a few tottering steps
- (of a structure) shaking or swaying as if about to collapse.
all that was left of this historic building were sections of tottering, smoke-blackened walls
a tottering pile of CDs
- move in a feeble or unsteady way.
a hunched figure was tottering down the path
- (of a structure) shake or sway as if about to collapse.
the building began to totter and then the roof gave way
Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren ‘to swing’ (the original sense in English).
Information about tottering
- The plural form of tottering is: totterings.
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Hyphenation of tottering
tot-ter-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- tottering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
tottering synonyms
Meaning tottery:
Meaning move or balance unsteadily; sway back and forth:
Meaning walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall:
Meaning move unsteadily in a particular direction:
Meaning trip repeatedly as one walks:
Meaning move in a feeble or unsteady way, especially because of old age:
Meaning walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground:
Meaning (of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait:
Meaning lose strength or momentum:
Meaning lose one's balance and stagger or lurch violently:
Meaning (of a young child) move with short unsteady steps while learning to walk:
Meaning walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury:
Meaning move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side:
Meaning move along or from side to side unsteadily or uncontrollably:
Meaning make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) shake or quiver slightly:
Meaning tremble or shake with a slight rapid motion:
Meaning (of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion:
Meaning (especially of something mechanical) shake and vibrate rapidly and with force:
Meaning the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil:
Meaning (especially of the earth) shake or tremble:
Meaning move continuously and rapidly to and fro:
Meaning move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm:
Words that rhyme with tottering
Ring, ring, Baring, Dearing, Spearing, Waring, Wearing, Zearing, abearing, afearing, affearing, afterhearing, anearing, appearing, ashlaring, backbearing, baring, bearing, beggaring, besmearing, bevaring, bewaring, blaring, blearing, burglaring, calendaring, caring, cellaring, charing, cheddaring, cheeseparing, childbearing, chivaring, clearing, coappearing, collaring, comparing, compearing, daring, dearing, declaring, dellaring, desugaring, disappearing, dogearing, drearing, earing, emparing, endearing, ensearing
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