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lurch - translation to English
lurch
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Lurch (disambiguation)
sacudida
tumbo
movimiento
bandazo
sacudir
dar bandazos
tambalearse
to leave in the lurch: dejar en la estacada
tumbo
movimiento
bandazo
sacudir
dar bandazos
tambalearse
to leave in the lurch: dejar en la estacada
bandazo
lurch
lurcher
![Lurcher, illustration from ''The Sportsman's Cabinet'' by William Taplin, 1803; engraved from a painting by [[Philip Reinagle]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taplin, The Sportsman's Cabinet, Lurcher (facing page 103) (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Lurcher, illustration from ''The Sportsman's Cabinet'' by William Taplin, 1803; engraved from a painting by [[Philip Reinagle]]")
BRITISH DOG CROSSBREED
North American Lurcher and Longdog Association
perro cruce de lebrel y collie
acechador
acechador
Definition
lurch
(lurches, lurching, lurched)
1.
To lurch means to make a sudden movement, especially forwards, in an uncontrolled way.
As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward...
Henry looked, stared, and lurched to his feet...
VERB: V adv/prep, V adv/prep, also V
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Lurch is also a noun.
The car took a lurch forward but grounded in a deep rut.
N-COUNT
2.
If you say that a person or organization lurches from one thing to another, you mean they move suddenly from one course of action or attitude to another in an uncontrolled way.
The state government has lurched from one budget crisis to another...
The first round of multilateral trade talks has lurched between hope and despair.
VERB: V from n to n, V prep/adv [disapproval]
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Lurch is also a noun.
The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.
N-COUNT: usu N prep
3.
If someone leaves you in the lurch, they go away or stop helping you at a very difficult time. (INFORMAL)
You wouldn't leave an old friend in the lurch, surely?
PHRASE: V inflects
Examples of use of lurch
1. Nearer to home, Vladimir Putin‘s illiberal lurch in Russia continues.
2. Its leaders are hiding, leaving the Palestinians in the lurch.
3. There‘s been a lot of talk about lurching, so let me make it clear – no lurch to the Right, no lurch to the Left.
4. Everywhere shards and fragments of the thing lurch out unexpectedly.
5. It‘s a bankrupt lurch of the educational right – Melanie Phillips and Chris Woodhead.