പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് വാർദ്ധക്യമോ ബലഹീനതയോ കാരണം അസ്ഥിരമോ അസ്ഥിരമോ എന്നാണ് "വിറയൽ" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം. തകർച്ചയുടെയോ പരാജയത്തിന്റെയോ വക്കിലുള്ള ഒന്നിനെയും ഇത് സൂചിപ്പിക്കാം. ഉദാഹരണത്തിന്, ബലഹീനനായ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അവരുടെ ബാലൻസ് നിലനിർത്താൻ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുള്ള ഒരു വ്യക്തിയെ ടോട്ടറിംഗ് എന്ന് വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കാം, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പൊങ്ങിക്കിടക്കാൻ പാടുപെടുന്ന ഒരു ബിസിനസ്സ് ടോട്ടറിംഗ് എന്ന് പറയാം.
1. Arthur spurred his horse toward the tottering limo.
2. It was at length arranged that we should live together during my stay in the city and as my worldly circumstances were somewhat less embarrassed than his own, I was permitted to be at the expense of renting, and furnishing in a style which suited the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper, a time-eaten and grotesque mansion, long deserted through superstitions into which we did not inquire, and tottering to its fall in a retired and desolate portion of the Faubourg St.
3. And I shall remain satisfied, and proud to have been the first who has ever enjoyed the fruit of his writings as fully as he could desire for my desire has been no other than to deliver over to the detestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote, are even now tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever.
4. She was already tottering by the time she reached her door.
5. Weak and tottering footsteps resounded across the chamber above me, and the next instant a dull, heavy weight seemed to fall powerless on the staircase.
6. Workmen were immediately called in, and that same night the passengers at the end of the faubourg saw with surprise that carpenters and masons were occupied in repairing the lower part of the tottering house.
7. Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired.
8. Everywhere along its bands were the moldering relics of dead trees, in all the stages of decay, from those that groaned on their tottering trunks to such as had recently been robbed of those rugged coats that so mysteriously contain their principle of life.
9. He saw him place his foot on the mossy ground with a trembling of the whole body, and walk round the carriage with an unsteady and almost tottering step.
10. The rest is spinning and tottering through a sandstorm.