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Antonyms for lurch

Grammar : Verb
Spell : lurch
Phonetic Transcription : lɜrtʃ

Definition of lurch

Origin :
  • "sudden pitch to one side," 1784, from earlier lee-larches (1765), a nautical term for "the sudden roll which a ship makes to lee-ward in a high sea, when a large wave strikes her, and bears her weather-side violently up, which depresses the other in proportion" ["Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences," London 1765]; perhaps from French lacher "to let go," from Latin laxus (see lax).
  • When a Ship is brought by the Lee, it is commonly occaÅ¿sioned by a large Sea, and by the Neglect of the Helm's-man. When the Wind is two or three Points on the Quarter, the Ship taking a Lurch, brings the Wind on the other Side, and lays the Sails all dead to the MaÅ¿t; as the Yards are braced up, Å¿he then having no Way, and the Helm being of no Service, I would therefore brace about the Head Å¿ails Å¿harp the other Way .... [John Hamilton Moore, Practical Navigator, 8th ed., 1784]
  • verb move toward with jerk
Example sentences :
  • With every lurch of her feet, Andrew expected to feel her crumble beneath him.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • I can't run the chance of the paper being left in the lurch.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • My pride was touched, and I agreed to go, leaving my fisherman in the lurch.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Government, I suppose, will do what is right, and not leave me in the lurch.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • What sort of a God was it who was gracious only to the young, and left the old in the lurch?
  • Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
  • They did use me to their heart's content, and left me in the lurch when danger came.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare.
  • Extract from : « The Very Small Person » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • Naturally they are not yet persuaded that the country will not leave them in the lurch again.
  • Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
  • Ever ready to join with France, we always leave her in the lurch.
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • He, too, had been flung away from the long tiller, which took charge in the lurch.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad

Synonyms for lurch

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