Lurching

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lurch \Lurch\ (l[^u]rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lurched}
     (l[^u]rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lurching}.]
     To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken
     man; to move forward while lurching.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lurching
       adj : walking unsteadily; "a stqaggering gait" [syn: {stumbling},
             {staggering}, {weaving}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "lurching":
     broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, dangling, desultory,
     deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful,
     flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
     heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting,
     irregular, jerky, nonuniform, patchy, pitching, rambling, reeling,
     rocking, rolling, rough, scrappy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
     spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, swaying,
     swinging, tossing, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical,
     unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady,
     unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling,
     wobbly