verb, noun
verb [V]
1 to make a sudden, unsteady movement forward or sideways:
Suddenly the horse lurched to one side and the child fell off. * The man lurched drunkenly out of the pub. * (figurative) Their relationship seems to lurch from one crisis to the next.
2 if your heart or stomach lurches, you have a sudden feeling of fear or excitement
noun [usuallysing.] a sudden strong movement that moves you forward or sideways and nearly makes you lose your balance:
The train gave a violent lurch. * His heart gave a lurch when he saw her. * With a lurch the party found itself heading for a major crisis.
IDIOMS
leave sb in the lurch (informal) to fail to help sb when they are relying on you to do so:
I'm sorry to leave you in the lurch but I can't do the presentation with you this afternoon. * She felt she had been left in the lurch by all her colleagues.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lurch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does lurch appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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