reel/reeled/reeling/reels (rēl)
To cause to stagger or recoil.
To waver; to recoil or draw away from.
Of material things: to shake, rock, or swing violently; to totter, tremble.
Of an object or image: to have, or seem to have, a rapid quivering motion; to shimmer.
Of a person, group, etc.: to be emotionally or psychologically shaken by an event, experience, etc.; to feel disorientated, bewildered, overwhelmed, or intoxicated as a result of an occurrence, a powerful emotion, carrying a heavy weight, etc.
"Yet still I gasp'd and reel'd with dread.
And ever, when the dream of night
Renews the phantom to my sight,
Cold sweat-drops gather on my limbs."
S. T. Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year, VI. (1796)
