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lurch
noun
1 lurch
An unsteady uneven gait.
synonyms: stagger, stumble.
Roget 217:
obliquity,
inclination,
slope,
slant,
crookedness
etc.
adj.;
slopeness†;
leaning
etc.
v.;
bevel,
tilt;
bias,
list,
twist,
swag,
cant,
lurch;
distortion
etc.
243;
bend
etc.
(curve)
245;
tower of Pisa.
acclivity,
rise,
ascent,
gradient,
khudd†,
rising ground,
hill,
bank,
declivity,
downhill,
dip,
fall,
devexity†;
gentle slope,
rapid slope,
easy ascent,
easy descent;
shelving beach;
talus;
monagne Russe [Fr.];
facilis descensus averni [Lat.].
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Roget 306:
descent,
descension†,
declension,
declination;
fall;
falling
etc.
v.;
slump;
drop,
plunge,
plummet,
cadence;
subsidence,
collapse,
lapse;
downfall,
tumble,
slip,
tilt,
trip,
lurch;
cropper,
culbute†;
titubation†,
stumble;
fate of Icarus.
avalanche,
debacle,
landslip,
landslide.
declivity,
dip,
hill.
[equipment for descending by rappeling]
rappel.
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Roget 314:
oscillation;
vibration,
libration;
motion of a pendulum;
nutation;
undulation;
pulsation;
pulse.
alternation;
coming and going
etc.
v.;
ebb and flow,
flux and reflux,
ups and down.
fluctuation;
vacillation
etc.
(irresolution)
605.
wave,
vibratiuncle†,
swing,
beat,
shake,
wag,
seesaw,
dance,
lurch,
dodge;
logan†,
loggan†,
rocking-stone,
vibroscope†.
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Roget 732:
failure;
nonsuccess†,
nonfulfillment;
dead failure,
successlessness†;
abortion,
miscarriage;
brutum fulmen
etc.
158 [Lat.];
labor in vain
etc.
(inutility)
645;
no go;
inefficacy†;
inefficaciousness
etc.
adj.;
vain attempt,
ineffectual attempt,
abortive attempt,
abortive efforts;
flash in the pan,
lame and impotent conclusion"
[Othello];
frustration;
slip 'twixt cup and lip
etc.
(disappointment)
509.
blunder
etc.
(mistake)
495;
fault,
omission,
miss,
oversight,
slip,
trip,
stumble,
claudication†,
footfall;
false step,
wrong step;
faux pas [Fr.],
titubation†,
b_evue [Fr.],
faute [Fr.],
lurch;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
scrape,
mess,
fiasco,
breakdown;
flunk [U.S.].
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
split,
collapse,
smash,
blow,
explosion.
repulse,
rebuff,
defeat,
rout,
overthrow,
discomfiture;
beating,
drubbing;
quietus,
nonsuit†,
subjugation;
checkmate,
stalemate,
fool's mate.
fall,
downfall,
ruin,
perdition;
wreck
etc.
(destruction)
162;
deathblow;
bankruptcy
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
losing game,
affaire flamb_ee.
victim;
bankrupt;
flunker†,
flunky [U.S.].
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Dutch: wankel
Polish: zataczanie się
2 lurch
A decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage).
3 lurch
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).
synonyms: pitch, pitching.
4 lurch
The act of moving forward suddenly.
synonym: lunge.
Dutch: longe
verb
1 lurch
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.
synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag.
Roget 306:
descend;
go down,
drop down,
come down;
fall,
gravitate,
drop,
slip,
slide,
rappel,
settle;
plunge,
plummet,
crash;
decline,
set,
sink,
droop,
come down a peg;
slump.
dismount,
alight,
light,
get down;
swoop;
stoop
etc.
308;
fall prostrate,
precipitate oneself;
let fall
etc.
308.
tumble,
trip,
stumble,
titubate†,
lurch,
pitch,
swag,
topple,
topple over,
tumble over,
topple down,
tumble down;
tilt,
sprawl,
plump down,
come down a cropper.
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2 lurch
Move abruptly:
— The ship suddenly lurched to the left.
synonyms: pitch, shift.
3 lurch
Move slowly and unsteadily.
4 lurch
Loiter about, with no apparent aim.
synonym: prowl.
5 lurch
Defeat by a lurch.
synonym: skunk.
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lurching
Moby thesaurus: broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, dangling, desultory, deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, patchy, pitching, rambling, reeling, rocking, rolling, rough, scrappy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, swaying, swinging, tossing, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly ... show more.
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