Send...reeling

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Dudumuzik  #449463  Tue, 04 Dec 07 08:24 AM

What does "send..reeling" mean here?

A full-blown dollar crisis on top of a credit crunch and a weakening economy would be frightening. It would send financial markets reeling and tie the hands of the Fed, perhaps forcing it to raise interest rates even as recession looms.

  
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Annvan  #449466  Tue, 04 Dec 07 08:54 AM
Make the financial markets unsteady/unbalanced.
  
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Marius Hancu  #449619  Tue, 04 Dec 07 05:58 PM
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reel


to move with great irregularity and unsteadiness (as of a ship in a storm, a building in an earthquake)

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