totter

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: I was very pleased with myself that I managed to totter up most of the hills.

Object

• pile: All this is a great tottering pile balanced on a ball, a ball that is about to start rolling downhill.
• step: The 21st Century Party initiative has taken us the first few tottering steps down this road.
• regime: In a confidential report to Kennedy, Mansfield said he saw little point in America continuing to support President Diem's tottering regime.
• tower: With a tottering tower of CDs sitting on the window sill, patiently waiting for review, it's clearly time for another mix.

Preposition: on

• brink: Sunday 16 th July Lord, have mercy on our wayward world, tottering on the brink of self-destruction.
• edge: I saw him trying to get back into the coach which was tottering on the edge of a bridge.
• verge: Due to a decrease in investment from abroad, these economies appear to be tottering on the verge of economic collapse.

Modifying Another Word

• back: I am now tottering back into health but my spirits are gloomy.
• then: This is great news, as you can enjoy your good ' knees up ' , and then totter upstairs to your room!
• forward: Struggling to his feet he tottered forward supporting himself with the branches.
• now: Divided on Europe, rejected by the electorate, the Conservatives now totter on the verge of self-destruction over the euro.
• not: They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So it will not totter.
• away: How could five old men tottering away to their final resting place be enthusiastic on the reception of a stranger?

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: He totally transformed what we were doing from students tottering around in a studio to dancers beginning to understand the movement.
• off: He got up among the crowd of guests and tottered off.
• along: Things like crashing around the house in her baby walker or tottering along behind her push cart.
• out: Three of the injured came tottering out from the coal face and collapsed in our arms.
• up: Eventually there was a move to totter up to the Hunters which some of us achieved.