0 past simple and past participle of totter
1 to walk with difficulty in a way that looks as if you are about to fall:
During the past 25 years, the railway industry has tottered from crisis to crisis and from problem to problem.
But they have all tottered; they have all been shattered.
Now, at long last, apparently, it has tottered and it is beginning to fall; it needs replacement.
It has tottered from one crisis to the next for all of those 15 years.
Companies have tottered in the past not because of a lack of skill among the workers of the industries but aften because of incompetent managements.
Children tottered about the streets starving and emaciated.
For the fraction of a second it seemed she tottered there, on her knees, gazing directly at those who had taken her life.
Having been refused the right to sell another round of bonds to unsuspecting investors, the shaky empire tottered.
