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Adjective lurching has 1 sense
- lurching, stumbling, staggering, weaving - walking unsteadily; "a stqaggering gait"
Antonym: steady (indirect, via unsteady)
Verb lurch has 5 senses
- stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen - walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- lurch, pitch, shift - move abruptly; "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
--2 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- lurch - move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- prowl, lurch - loiter about, with no apparent aim
--4 is one way to loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- lurch, skunk - defeat by a lurch
--5 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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