lurch

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But with the court rejecting the petition once again leaving SEBI in the lurch, the other option it has now is to go to the higher court.

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  1. intransitive verb To stagger. See Synonyms at blunder.
  2. intransitive verb To roll or pitch suddenly or erratically: The ship lurched in the storm. The car gave a start and then lurched forward.
  3. noun A staggering or tottering movement or gait.
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  • The U.S. automotive market has yet to reverse 2008's serious downward lurch, and automakers continue to pile on incentives to induce customers to purchase a new vehicle. —  Auto Observer
  • New York Jets - style lurch, a general trend which might hurt Garcia's allure as a starter. —  NFL Football News | Realfootball365.com
  • But with the court rejecting the petition once again leaving SEBI in the lurch, the other option it has now is to go to the higher court. —  IBN Top Headlines
  • I find that the wonder still prevails in a lurch, a sideways glance or a passing shout of abuse by a child, an adult or both, one aiding the other in learned prejudice. —  Black Looks
  • I feel a lurch, and out the window I see the terminal recede as the plane taxis toward the runway. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
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jolt ·  heave ·  jerk ·  thud ·  bump ·  twitch ·  tug ·  rumble ·  gasp ·  plunge ·  shiver ·  shove

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lurch:   lurched ·  lurching
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Perhaps back-formation from Middle English lurching, a total victory at lorche, a kind of game; perhaps akin to lurken, to lurk; see lurk.

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  1. An assibilated form of lurk, as church of kirk, birch of birk, etc.: see lurk.
  2. from lurch, v.
  3. from Old French *lurcher, from Latin lurcare, lurcari, Middle Latin also lurchari, eat voraciously, devour (later lurco, lurcho, a glutton, gormand).
  4. Formerly also lurche; = German lurtsch, lurz = Italian lurcio, from Old French lourche, a game so called, also written l'ourche, as if from le, def. art., + ourche, given by Cotgrave in the same sense, and entered as ourche by Godefroy, who there gives the same example (Rabelais, iii. 12: see first quot. under def. 1) with the word written l'ourche, that he gives under lourche with the word written lourche. The proper form is doubtless lourche; it is prob. connected with Old French lourche, insnared, deceived, duped.
  5. from lurch, n. In defs. 2, 3,4, perhaps in part of other origin; cf. Old French lourche, insnared, deceived, duped. Some confusion also with lurch, v., has prob. affected the uses of this verb.
 

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