What's the difference between groggy and stagger?

Groggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.
  • (a.) Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists.
  • (a.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 'groggy state' can occur in some fighters with confusion, impaired active attention and alteration of consciousness.
  • (2) Groggy, he's helped off in a very confused state, and replaced by Schurrle.
  • (3) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
  • (4) At 2pm he wondered if he would have to pull out: “I felt a bit groggy while I was warming up but the thing I love is major championships, I love stadiums.
  • (5) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
  • (6) The same variety of side effects occurred on each treatment and primarily included drowsiness, grogginess, headaches, impaired coordination nausea, and dizziness.
  • (7) Genetic studies revealed that the character is inherited by an autosomal single recessive gene, and we designated this mutation groggy (gene symbol gr).
  • (8) Those who have will know that the grogginess of sleep does little to dampen the surge in adrenaline.
  • (9) 3.52am BST 58 mins Jones looks a little groggy as he's helped off, but he walks off under his own steam.
  • (10) Factory's Happy Mondays bound together the exotic new dance rhythms with a groggy Lancastrian verse, and in the movement known as Madchester was born the commercialisation of the abstract, agitating spirit of Factory, and the spirited postmodern skittishness of Wilson.
  • (11) They were determined to secure consecutive victories for the first time since the start of November, after what should have been a shot-in-the-arm thrashing of Arsenal on Boxing Day was followed by the grogginess of two straight league defeats, an early exit from the FA Cup, and misgivings over the attitude of certain players.
  • (12) The abnormal movement of the groggy rat was first apparent around postnatal day 15, while the histological studies revealed the appearance of numerous necrotic neurons in the striatum of the groggy rat on postnatal days 60 and 120.
  • (13) Drowsiness and grogginess were reported most frequently on both treatments, and the number of patients reporting drowsiness or grogginess was also significantly higher in the flurazepam group.
  • (14) 2.22am GMT 10 mins A groggy Beasley being treated on the sidelines.
  • (15) "He's a little bit groggy at the minute but he's OK," said Paul Lambert, the Villa manager.
  • (16) I’ve never known anything like it in sport.” The additional loss of Hohaia, their only remaining specialist half-back who had to be helped down the tunnel and was deemed too groggy to return, left Saints with an even stranger attacking formation, with Wellens and Mark Flanagan as their playmakers and the London-born forward Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook at centre.
  • (17) One patient reported feeling groggy and drowsy on 0.4 mg triazolam while 2 reported nightmares on placebo.
  • (18) But there was nothing groggy about their performance at a chilly, squelchy Wembley as they brushed aside a toothless Jaguars team – with Bryant scoring two touchdowns and finishing with 158 yards.
  • (19) Side effects (grogginess, lethargy; flurazepam only) were few and none was unexpected; neither rebound insomnia nor early morning insomnia occurred with either drug.
  • (20) Other neurological syndromes have been reported in addition to the 'groggy state'.

Stagger


Definition:

  • (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
  • (n.) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
  • (n.) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
  • (v. t.) To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
  • (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
  • (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.
  • (n.) Bewilderment; perplexity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.
  • (2) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
  • (3) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
  • (4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
  • (5) There are rumours that this is the case again and I can't imagine what these people are thinking, it staggers me.
  • (6) Terminase, the DNA packaging enzyme of phage lambda, binds to lambda DNA at a site called cosB, and introduces staggered nicks at an adjacent site, cosN, to generate the cohesive ends of virion lambda DNA molecules.
  • (7) When allowance was made for specific pairing between extrahelical and helical domains, the so-called D-staggered (D = 670 A) alignment of molecules was preferred, as opposed to a nonstaggered, or nematic, alignment.
  • (8) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
  • (9) Speaking about the forthcoming T-charge, Khan said: “It’s staggering that we live in a city where the air is so toxic that many of our children are growing up with lung problems.
  • (10) The metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the CNS was investigated in four kinds of morphologically different ataxic mice; reeler, staggerer, weaver and Purkinje cell degeneration mutants, and in hypocerebellar mice experimentally produced by injection of cytosine arabinoside.
  • (11) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
  • (12) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
  • (13) water retention, depression, transient staggering and phlebitis).
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  • (15) Lucie Faucherre, junior policy analyst, Gender Equality and Women’s Rights OECD , Paris, France, @luciefaucherre Include youth voices: Today, young people under 30 make up a staggering 50% of our world’s population.
  • (16) The men's list was published in September and saw Johnny Depp on top with a staggering $75m in annual earnings.
  • (17) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
  • (18) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
  • (19) In the presence of Co+2 ion, the primer specificity is altered so that all forms of duplex DNA molecules can be labeled at their unique 3'-ends regardless of whether such ends are staggered or even.
  • (20) In examining two different sets of experiments, it is proposed that staggered joint interpolation is the underlying planning strategy.

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