Definitions for lurches

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Spelling: [lurch]

IPA: /lɜrtʃ/

Lurches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in lurches (cehlrsu).

Definitions for lurches

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 lurches

First recorded in 1760-70; origin uncertain

Examples for lurches

In the midst of the uproar French Charlie lurches up to Maudie.

And yet he went as one in a dream, with the lurches of a drunken man.

While Libya lurches forward to its landmark parliamentary election, its children face a brutal conflict on the playground.

The stage reached the bottom of the wash in a succession of lurches.

He lurches, box and all, clean out of plumb and nearly capsizes me.

In one of its lurches the moon flooded the place with light.

The lurches grew sharper, and Miss Schuyler gasped now and then as she felt the sleigh swing rocking down a long declivity.

How the ship rolls and lurches the moment that one rises from the leather couch!

The lurches in time and devastating conclusion make it linger unsettlingly in the mind.

She thumps and lurches, and they stagger together, feeling sick.