Commanding and Staggering

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
  • synonyms: command
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: command, require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
  • synonyms: command
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control, command

adjective

• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: dominating, overlooking

• (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
• (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
• (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

verb

• Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
  • usage: "The drunken man staggered into the room"
  • synonyms: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen
• Walk with great difficulty.
  • usage: "He staggered along in the heavy snow"
  • synonyms: stagger, flounder
• To arrange in a systematic order.
  • usage: "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
  • synonyms: stagger, distribute
• Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.
  • usage: "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
  • synonyms: stagger

adjective

• So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm.
  • usage: "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
  • synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying