Definitions for lurch

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Spelling: [lurch]

IPA: /lɜrtʃ/

Lurch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in lurch (chlru).

Definitions for lurch

noun

1. an act or instance of swaying abruptly.
2. a sudden tip or roll to one side, as of a ship or a staggering person.
3. an awkward, swaying or staggering motion or gait.
4. a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
5. Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.

Idioms

1. leave in the lurch, to leave in an uncomfortable or desperate situation; desert in time of trouble:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to do out of; defraud; cheat.
2. Obsolete. to acquire through underhanded means; steal; filch.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a ship) to roll or pitch suddenly.
2. to make a lurch; move with lurches; stagger:
3. British Dialect. to lurk near a place; prowl.

Origin of lurch

First recorded in 1760-70; origin uncertain

Examples for lurch

With every lurch of her feet, Andrew expected to feel her crumble beneath him.

The crowd began to lurch violently, as small motions rippled out into panicked attempts to break away.

My pride was touched, and I agreed to go, leaving my fisherman in the lurch.

I can't run the chance of the paper being left in the lurch.

The United States cannot simply walk away from the plain meaning of the Budapest Memorandum and leave Ukraine in the lurch.

Government, I suppose, will do what is right, and not leave me in the lurch.

That will leave troops in a lurch when the F-35 eventually becomes the only game in town.

Well, this is where the mainstream media have left you, citizen, in the lurch.

So as we lurch toward the next “fail-safe” milestone, there must be a way out for both sides.

What sort of a God was it who was gracious only to the young, and left the old in the lurch?