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Lurch   /lərtʃ/   Listen
Lurch

noun
1.
An unsteady uneven gait.  Synonyms: stagger, stumble.
2.
A decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage).
3.
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).  Synonyms: pitch, pitching.
4.
The act of moving forward suddenly.  Synonym: lunge.
verb
(past & past part. lurched; pres. part. lurching)
1.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.  Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag.
2.
Move abruptly.  Synonyms: pitch, shift.
3.
Move slowly and unsteadily.
4.
Loiter about, with no apparent aim.  Synonym: prowl.
5.
Defeat by a lurch.  Synonym: skunk.



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"Lurch" Quotes from Famous Books



... the safety of the boats. Early on the second day of warning they had been hoisted to the topmost notch of the cranes, and secured as thoroughly as experience could suggest; but at every lee lurch we gave it seemed as if we must dip them under water, while the wind threatened to stave the weather ones in by its actual solid weight. It was now blowing a furious cyclone, the force of which has never been accurately gauged (even by the present ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... the sea was calm, it seemed to him that the ship gave a great dizzying lurch. But in a moment he contrived to answer coherently: "Engaged to Miss Garland! I never supposed—I ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James
... on deck, before the houseboat gave a sudden lurch to one side, and then began to ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat • Laura Lee Hope
... the way that a kind of heated physical ill-breeding seemed to fall on everybody in the carriage, and the way they began to lurch against each other and pull packages off the rack and from under the seat with disregard for each other's comfort, that they were approaching the end of the journey; and she began to think of Marion with terror and vindictiveness, and this abstinence from a career became ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... words were lost in the great buzzing noise which filled his head. Everything turned black before him—black filled with a thousand shooting colors; then the world gave a vicious lurch which toppled him over. He awoke, flat on the ground, with Marjorie leaning above him, crying and dabbing his ...
— Tom of the Raiders • Austin Bishop


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