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# totter

«totter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to walk or stand unsteadily, as if about to fall over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (totters, tottered, tottering)

### meaning for a pupil

To totter is to walk or stand unsteadily, as if about to fall over, because you are weak, old or tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a weak or shocked person totters, moving on shaky legs and almost falling

### examples

- The old man began to totter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/#x1)
- The baby tottered across the room on wobbly legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/#x2)
- The tired dancers tottered at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/#x3)
- He tottered down the stairs after the shock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes a way of moving and gives no number.

### In the corpora

- [The earth is broken, broken down, the earth is crumbled in pieces, the earth trembleth and tottereth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.506/)
- [Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; for it tottereth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.979/)
- [Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to totter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1151/)
- [My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2038/)
- [And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me tottering upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.301/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «totter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/totter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.