lurch

lurch is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
2. noun. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
3. noun. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
4. transitive verb. To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
5. transitive verb. To steal; to rob.
6. noun. A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
7. intransitive verb. To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
8. intransitive verb. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
9. intransitive verb. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
10. noun. an unsteady uneven gait

    Synonyms: stagger, stumble

11. noun. the act of moving forward suddenly

    Synonyms: lunge

12. noun. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

    "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

    Synonyms: pitch, pitching

13. noun. a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
14. verb. defeat by a lurch

    Synonyms: skunk

15. verb. move abruptly

    "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

    Synonyms: pitch, shift

16. verb. walk as if unable to control one's movements

    "The drunken man staggered into the room"

    Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag

17. verb. move slowly and unsteadily

    "The truck lurched down the road"

18. verb. loiter about, with no apparent aim

    Synonyms: prowl

Synonyms

stagger, stumble, lunge, pitch, pitching, skunk, shift, careen, keel, reel, swag, prowl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lurch:

churl

Common word forms

lurched, lurcher, lurches, lurching

Words from these letters

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