英语词汇“lurch”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lurch
释义	lurch I. \ˈlərch, -ə̄ch, -əich\ verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English lorchen, probably alteration of lurken to lurk — more at lurk *intransitive verb* 1. dialect chiefly England : to loiter about a place furtively : prowl, sneak < lurch about the place looking sinister — Anthony Carson > 2. obsolete : cheat, steal *transitive verb* 1. obsolete : to obtain by fraud or stealth : filch, steal < put lately into many men's heads … his own ambitious ends to lurch a crown — John Milton > 2. archaic : to do out of something : cheat, rob < in the brunt of seventeen battles … he lurched all swords of the garland — Shakespeare > II. noun (-es) archaic : an act of lurching or a state of watchful readiness < the enemy of human happiness, always lying at lurch to make prey of the young — J.P.Kennedy †1870 > III. noun (-es) Etymology: Middle French lourche, n., a game & lourche, adjective, deceived, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German lerz, lurz left, located on the left side, lürzen to deceive — more at lordosis 1. obsolete : an act or instance of cheating : fraud 2. obsolete a. : an act or instance of discomfiture : setback, rout b. : one's sphere of control : power < David, when he had Saul in his lurch, might … have cut off his head — Thomas Goodwin > 3. a. : a decisive defeat in which a player wins a game by more than twice his opponent's score; specifically : a defeat in which a player wins a cribbage game before his opponent has progressed halfway toward the goal — compare gammon, rubicon b. obsolete : an old game that may have resembled backgammon • - in the lurch IV. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) 1. : to defeat by a lurch (as in cribbage) — compare skunk 2. archaic : to leave in the lurch : disappoint, desert < fortune … hath lurched generals in her time — Sporting Magazine > V. noun (-es) Etymology: origin unknown 1. a. : a sudden roll of a ship to one side (as in heavy weather) b. : an act or instance of swaying or tipping < a sudden lurch of the vehicle threw the two men together — John Morrison > < felt a great lurch of joy — Marcia Davenport > c. : a gait characterized by a sway or stagger < walk with the same slow, complacent lurch — Rebecca West > 2. : bent, drift, inclination, tendency, urge < showed a decided lurch toward a solitary life > VI. intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) 1. a. : to roll or tip abruptly : cant, pitch < the schooner lurched in the uneasy chop — Kenneth Roberts > < ramshackle outbuildings, lurching rose arches — Elizabeth Taylor > < the glen seemed to lurch forward and become a defile — John Buchan > b. : to move with a series of lurches : careen, sway < landing craft lurched toward shore — Time > < international group … lurched for days over lunar roads to watch the sacred right of franchise exercised — Punch > < she slouched off … the cub lurching along contentedly beside her — C.G.D.Roberts > 2. a. : to move unsteadily or in a series of stops and starts : stagger < a visiting … celebrity, somewhat bemused by whiskey, lurched across the room — Ian Bevan > < horses lurching in deep mud — Adrian Bell > b. : to give a sudden or involuntary movement : jerk, lunge < rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and lurched upright — Julian Dana > < lurched forward with a bullet in his head — E.V.Burkholder > < the pain lurched in him — Ernest Hemingway > 3. : to move in an awkward or uncertain fashion : blunder, stumble < we're not all … lurching along on mere instinct — Anne D. Sedgwick > < Congress lurched toward adjournment — Time >
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