bestagger

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ stagger.

Verb

bestagger (third-person singular simple present bestaggers, present participle bestaggering, simple past and past participle bestaggered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stagger about; cause (one) to stagger.
   • 1899, Edward A. Tabor, Danger Signals for New Century Manhood - Page 117:

     Like a vampire it is rapidly sucking, through our young men, the very financial life blood from this nation, in so much that it bestaggers all efforts to totalize its direful influence.

   • 1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34:

     Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both?

   • 1992 April 27, New York Magazine, page 83:

     But the supreme horror comes from the Mitch of Timothy Carhart, who seems to bestride — or bestagger — a stage for the first time.

Anagrams

• beggarest