tottering 音标拼音: [t'ɑtɚɪŋ]
a . 蹒跚的,动摇的
蹒跚的,动摇的
tottering adj 1 :
unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age ; "
a tottering skeleton of a horse "; "
a tottery old man " [
synonym :
{
tottering }, {
tottery }]
2 : (
of structures or institutions )
having lost stability ;
failing or on the point of collapse ; "
a tottering empire "
Totter \
Tot "
ter \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Tottered };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Tottering }.] [
Probably for older tolter ;
cf .
AS .
tealtrian to totter ,
vacillate .
Cf .{
Tilt }
to incline ,
{
Toddle }, {
Tottle }, {
Totty }.]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
To shake ;
to reel ;
to lean ;
to waver .
[
1913 Webster ]
Troy nods from high ,
and totters to her fall .
--
Dryden .
[
1913 Webster ]
176 Moby Thesaurus words for "
tottering ":
Lissajous figure ,
alternation ,
ambling ,
ambulation ,
anile ,
back -
and -
forth ,
backpacking ,
cautious ,
circumspect ,
claudicant ,
collapsing ,
coming and going ,
crabbed ,
crawling ,
creeping ,
creeping like snail ,
debilitated ,
deciduous ,
declining ,
declivitous ,
decrepit ,
decurrent ,
deliberate ,
descendant ,
descending ,
dilapidated ,
doddered ,
doddering ,
doddery ,
down ,
down -
reaching ,
downcoming ,
downfalling ,
downgoing ,
downhill ,
downsinking ,
downward ,
drooping ,
dropping ,
easy ,
ebb and flow ,
falling ,
faltering ,
feeble ,
flagging ,
fluctuation ,
flux and reflux ,
foot -
dragging ,
footing ,
footing it ,
footwork ,
fossilized ,
gentle ,
gerontal ,
gerontic ,
going on foot ,
gradual ,
groggy ,
halting ,
hiking ,
hitchhiking ,
hitching ,
hobbled ,
hobbling ,
hoofing ,
idle ,
indolent ,
infirm ,
languid ,
languorous ,
lazy ,
legwork ,
leisurely ,
limping ,
lumbering ,
marching ,
moderate ,
mossbacked ,
moth -
eaten ,
mummylike ,
on the decline ,
on the descendant ,
on the downgrade ,
on the skids ,
on the wane ,
oscillation ,
palsied ,
papery -
skinned ,
pedestrianism ,
pendulation ,
perambulation ,
plummeting ,
plunging ,
poking ,
poky ,
ramshackle ,
ravaged with age ,
reciprocation ,
relaxed ,
reluctant ,
rhythmic play ,
ricketish ,
rickety ,
rocky ,
run to seed ,
rusty ,
sagging ,
sauntering ,
seesaw ,
seesawing ,
senile ,
setting ,
shaky ,
shifting ,
shriveled ,
shuffling ,
sine wave ,
sinking ,
slack ,
slothful ,
slow ,
slow as death ,
slow as molasses ,
slow as slow ,
slow -
crawling ,
slow -
foot ,
slow -
going ,
slow -
legged ,
slow -
moving ,
slow -
paced ,
slow -
poky ,
slow -
running ,
slow -
sailing ,
slow -
stepped ,
sluggish ,
snail -
paced ,
snaillike ,
spidery ,
spindly ,
staggering ,
stricken in years ,
strolling ,
submerging ,
subsiding ,
teeter ,
teeter -
totter ,
teeter -
tottering ,
teetering ,
teetery ,
tentative ,
thumbing ,
thumbing a ride ,
timeworn ,
to -
and -
fro ,
toddling ,
tortoiselike ,
tottery ,
tramping ,
treading ,
trudging ,
tumbledown ,
turtlelike ,
unhurried ,
unsteady ,
ups and downs ,
vacillation ,
variation ,
vicissitude ,
waddling ,
walking ,
wavering ,
weak ,
wigwag ,
withered ,
wizened ,
wobbly
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