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tottering

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1. tottering - Noun

2. tottering - Adjective

3. tottering - Verb

5. tottering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Totter

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. Desmond Tutu

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. H. P. Lovecraft

Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman's wisdom. Lloyd Alexander

At the time this hazardous prophecy was made, the huge overgrown Roman Empire was tottering to its fall. Does a similar fate await the British Empire? Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer

A tottering man must lean upon a staff. Danish Proverb

Better to stumble once than be always tottering. French Proverb

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