"tottering" in the verb sense

1. totter

move without being stable, as if threatening to fall

"The drunk man tottered over to our table"

2. toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle

walk unsteadily

"small children toddle"

3. teeter, seesaw, totter

move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

"tottering" in the adjective sense

1. tottering, tottery

unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

"a tottering skeleton of a horse"

"a tottery old man"

2. tottering

of structures or institutions) having lost stability failing or on the point of collapse

"a tottering empire"

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