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lurch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of lurch

1 to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions

the room lurched with every jolt of the earthquake

Synonyms of lurch

careen, pitch, rock, roll, seesaw, sway, toss, wobble (also wabble)

Words Related to lurch

blunder, buck, dodder, falter, flounder, halt, hitch, hobble, jerk, jolt, reel, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, toddle, totter, tumble, vacillate, vibrate, waddle, waver, weave

oscillate, undulate, wag, waggle

2 to move forward while swaying from side to side

dressed in his zombie costume, the boy lurched down the street in his quest for Halloween candy

Synonyms of lurch

careen, dodder, reel, stagger, teeter, totter, waddle

Words Related to lurch

rock, roll, seesaw, swag, sway, waver, weave, wobble (also wabble)

barge, blunder, clomp, clump, flounder, galumph, lumber, lump, pound, scuff, scuffle, shamble, shuffle, stamp, stomp, stumble, tramp, tromp

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