The Clue
Ready to collapse (9 letter answer)
The Answer
TOTTERING
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Notes
The answer TOTTERING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
TOTTER as a verb:
1. 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 as an adjective:
1. (tottering, tottery) = unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"
2. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"