STAGGERED

verb

1. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
2. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
3. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

adjective

1. Astonished, taken aback.
2. Arranged in a way that is not uniform.