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All lurch synonyms

lurch
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verb lurch

  • totter — to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness.
  • bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
  • teeter — to move unsteadily.
  • jerk — to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
  • reel — a lively Scottish dance.
  • tilt — to furnish with a tilt.
  • lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • seesaw — a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
  • sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
  • wallow — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
  • flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
  • stagger — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
  • careen — To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
  • wobble — to incline to one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, or other rotating body when not properly balanced.
  • falter — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • heave — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
  • stumble — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
  • dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • pitch — to smear or cover with pitch.
  • toss — Terminal Oriented Social Science
  • yaw — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
  • swing — to play (music) in the style of swing.
  • list — Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
  • blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
  • slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
  • slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • rockrock the boat, Informal. to disrupt the smooth functioning or routine of something: Don't rock the boat by demanding special treatment from management.
  • roll — to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel.
  • weave — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
  • stammer — to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.

noun lurch

  • motion — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
  • listing — a careening, or leaning to one side, as of a ship.
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