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tottering   (TTS Sound)

The verb totter has 3 senses

• totter -- (move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table")


• toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle -- (walk unsteadily; "small children toddle")


• teeter, seesaw, totter -- (move unsteadily, with a rocking motion)

The adj tottering has 2 senses

• tottering, tottery -- (unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man")


• tottering -- ((of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire")