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Antonyms for lurching

Grammar : Verb
Spell : lurch
Phonetic Transcription : lɜrtʃ

Definition of lurching

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 occaſsioned 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 Maſt; as the Yards are braced up, ſhe then having no Way, and the Helm being of no Service, I would therefore brace about the Head ſails ſharp the other Way .... [John Hamilton Moore, Practical Navigator, 8th ed., 1784]
  • verb move toward with jerk
Example sentences :
  • He came at last, lurching in his walk, being overstiff from his long ride.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Nichols rose, lurching to his full height, and looked in my direction.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • He was running like a spent man, tottering and lurching from side to side.
  • Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
  • Lurching heavily forward she would have fallen had he not caught her.
  • Extract from : « The Mask » by Arthur Hornblow
  • The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
  • Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
  • Helplessly she lolled in the sweep of the gray, lurching billows.
  • Extract from : « Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea » by Charles H. L. Johnston
  • “Here I am, Bartlett,” said the fellow, lurching about in an unsteady way.
  • Extract from : « Ralph on the Engine » by Allen Chapman
  • He went up the road in his long, lurching, huntsman's stride.
  • Extract from : « Frank of Freedom Hill » by Samuel A. Derieux
  • He walked without knowing it, now helped, now lurching on alone.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Mean Streets » by Arthur Morrison
  • And there was Lee, lurching up the aisle against the acceleration.
  • Extract from : « The Syndic » by C.M. Kornbluth

Synonyms for lurching

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