Word Meanings - TOTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,

Additional info about word: TOTTER

1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOTTER)

• Reel
• Totter
• stagger
• falter
• Shake
• Agitate
• weaken
• oscillate
• totter
• convulse
• loosen
• tremble
• jar
• quiver
• shiver
• Tremble
• quake
• shudder
• vibrate
• Waver
• Hesitate
• dubitate
• halt
• fluctuate
• vacillate
• alternate
• scruple
• be undetermined

Related words: (words related to TOTTER)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• STAGGERWORT
  A kind of ragwort .
• FLUCTUATE
  fluctus wave, fr. fluere, fluctum, to flow. See Fluent, and cf. 1. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. Blackmore. 2. To move now in one direction and
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• STAGGER
  1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.