tottering

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adjective

1. unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age (Freq. 3)
- a tottering skeleton of a horse
- a tottery old man
• Syn:
tottery
• Similar to:
unsteady
2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability;
failing or on the point of collapse
- a tottering empire
• Similar to:
unstable