lurch
Fetched 2026-10-28 (live).
Synonyms: lunch, larch, lorch, purch, curch, burch, lerch, murch, urch, furch, durch
Antonyms: lunch, larch, lorch, purch, curch, burch, lerch, murch, urch, furch, durch
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Noun
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
Verb
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Verb
- To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
Verb
- To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
- To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
- To rob.
Noun
- A lift or heave.
Noun
- A predicament or difficult situation.
- to leave someone in the lurch
- An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
- A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
Verb
- To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
- To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
Source: Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wiktionary) · cached copy, not a rewrite.