See totter on Wiktionary
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"text": "The baby tottered from the table to the chair.",
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"text": "The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.",
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"text": "The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.",
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"ref": "2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:",
"text": "Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.",
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"roman": "zalitam",
"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "залитам"
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"word": "schwanken"
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"word": "támolyog"
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"word": "tuisligh"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "barcollare"
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"word": "tapepa"
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"word": "kaurori"
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"word": "tatutatu"
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"word": "tūrorirori"
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"word": "turori"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "hikoki"
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"word": "hūoioi"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "kōkeke"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
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"word": "ковыля́ть"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
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"word": "шата́ться"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
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"word": "кача́ться"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "हूर्छति"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "istontonai"
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"word": "bantzigà"
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"word": "tamburà"
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"sense": "move or stand unsteadily",
"word": "teturati"
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"ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 11:",
"text": "[…]the folly of this Iland, they ſay there's but fiue vpon this Iſle ; we are three of them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.",
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"ref": "1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:",
"text": "By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].",
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"word": "valpartij"
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