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I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
Jennifer Egan

Meaning of "lurching" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LURCHING

lurching  [ˈlɜːtʃɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LURCHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lurching is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LURCHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lurching in the English dictionary

The definition of lurching in the dictionary is moving suddenly to one side.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LURCHING


approaching
əˈprəʊtʃɪŋ
beseeching
bɪˈsiːtʃɪŋ
birching
ˈbɜːtʃɪŋ
catching
ˈkætʃɪŋ
Ching
tʃɪŋ
churching
ˈtʃɜːtʃɪŋ
coaching
ˈkəʊˌtʃɪŋ
Kuching
ˈkuːtʃɪŋ
launching
ˈlɔːntʃɪŋ
matching
ˈmætʃɪŋ
nonteaching
nɒnˈtiːtʃɪŋ
overarching
ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃɪŋ
scorching
ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ
screeching
ˈskriːtʃɪŋ
searching
ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ
stitching
ˈstɪtʃɪŋ
stretching
ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ
strip-searching
ˈstrɪpˌsɜːtʃɪŋ
teaching
ˈtiːtʃɪŋ
touching
ˈtʌtʃɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LURCHING

lur
lurch
lurcher
lurdan
lure
Lurex
lurgies
lurgy
Luria
lurid
luridly
luridness
Lurie
luringly
lurk
lurker
lurking
lurkingly
lurry
lurve

WORDS THAT END LIKE LURCHING

aching
anything
bewitching
birdwatching
bitching
branching
couching
English Language Teaching
enriching
etching
eye-catching
far-reaching
fetching
geocaching
hatching
itching
quenching
scratching
squelching
twitching
whale watching

Synonyms and antonyms of lurching in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LURCHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lurching» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lurching
heel · lean · list · pitch · reel · rock · roll · stagger · stumble · sway · tilt · totter · weave

Translation of «lurching» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LURCHING

Find out the translation of lurching to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lurching from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lurching» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蹒跚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dando bandazos
570 millions of speakers

English

lurching
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lurching
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الترنح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

покачиваясь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

balançante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lurching
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

embardées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lurching
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlingern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飛出し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌출
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lurching
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lurching
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாய்ந்துள்ள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लंचिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lurching
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lurching
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szarpanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погойдуючись
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lurching
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lurching
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krängande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lurching
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lurching

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LURCHING»

The term «lurching» is normally little used and occupies the 113.111 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LURCHING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lurching

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2 QUOTES WITH «LURCHING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lurching.
1
Jennifer Egan
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
2
Steven Rattner
China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LURCHING»

Discover the use of lurching in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lurching and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lurching: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Stark rose from the armchair, and, lurching round to the bed, flung himself on it.ndash;Horatio Alger in Driven From Home.After all it was only yesterday that we were discussing every meet; and you promised to give me a lurcher.ndash;Margot ...
‎2008
2
Methods and Models in Neurophysics
A. Exponential Shape B. Square Shape r.d (ms) Continuous Pulse: s - stable us - unstable ne - not exist Lurching Pulse: H - exists and stable • - bistable Fig. 4. Regimes of existence and stability of the continuous and lurching pulses in the r< /-r ...
C. C. Chow, 2005
3
Dissipative Solitons: From Optics to Biology and Medicine
A. Exponential Shape B. Square Shape 40 050050 20 s us ne τd (ms) τ d (ms) 0 Continuous Pulse: s − stable us − unstable ne − not exist Lurching Pulse: − exists and stable − bistable Fig. 4 Regimes of existence and stability of the continuous ...
Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz, 2008
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The New Monthly Magazine
when the clock of the old church of Dubberley struck one; and from his bed in a corner of the field close by, Lurching Jem—Anosn. Bringing an end to slumber— bringing an end to rest—rousing to fresh vice—hurrying on to dark fate, the church ...
‎1856
5
the new montly magazine
when the clock of the old church of Dubberley struck one ; and from his bed in a corner of the field close by, Lurching Jem — arose. Bringing an end to slumber — bringing an end to rest — rousing to fresh vice — hurrying on to dark fate, the ...
william harrison ainsworth, 1856
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New Monthly Magazine
when the clock of the old church of Dubberley struck one ; and from his bed in a corner of the field close by, Lurching Jem — akose. Bringing an end to slumber — bringing an end to rest — rousing to fresh vice — hurrying on to dark fate, the ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1856
7
Geological Survey Professional Paper
This stress in the surface appears to have extended back from the slide scarps. LANDSLIDING AND LURCHING Ground cracks that form beside streams and rivers during earthquakes have commonly been ascribed to landsliding and lurching ...
‎1970
8
Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns: Solitons ...
Using judiciously small increments in the pseudo-arclength parameter ξ it is possible to follow unstable branches over wide parameter intervals, and elucidate the connection between different lurching solutions. We remark that all our ...
Orazio Descalzi, Marcel Clerc, Stefania Residori, 2011
9
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Lurching. Toward. Babylon. 11/11/05. People ask me: What do you cover now that the entertainment industry has fizzled away? After all, for the past ten years, that was my beat. My answer: Basically, I spend my days like everyone else, ...
Chris Rose, 2005
10
Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease
Interestingly, Golomb and Ermentrout [450] have demonstrated numerically that in the regime where the continuous wave is unstable, TA > rac, lurching pulses propagate with discontinuous, periodic spatio-temporal characteristics. Moreover  ...
John Milton, Peter Jung, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LURCHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lurching is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Zapruder's Surf Film
from Pottz on the commentary, the sight of the flailing Fanning and the lurching shark even shocking Joe Turpel into silence, a sign something ... «Surfer Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Holy Crap, Hannibal Is Getting Crazier and I Love It
Just when Cordell is lurching in with some lotion (not, alas, in a basket) to keep Will's visage moist, Will lurches in and bites a chunk from his ... «io9, Jul 15»
3
IBM Earnings Disappoint Again In Mixed Q2 As Turnaround …
IBM's IBM's ongoing effort to revamp its financial outlook to become a cloud-focused company took another lurching step forward on Monday. «Forbes, Jul 15»
4
Run Home: Eels
Injury report: Things just keep lurching from bad to worse for the luckless Eels on the injury front. They lost Kenny Edwards for the season ... «NRL.COM, Jul 15»
5
What we know about 'Fear the Walking Dead' — so far
... moment, when people don't know what's happening, and so don't realize they should run fast, very fast from those lurching, bloody monsters. «New York Post, Jul 15»
6
How the Colorado Rapids got their groove back, and Steven …
... than the awkward NYC FC team currently lurching into place. From present vantage points Backe might appreciate the irony rather more than ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Former budget leaders push Congress to revamp process
To prevent Congress from lurching “from one budget crisis to another,” the two budget experts say lawmakers should consider rewriting the ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
8
Team Canada recalls wild plays leading to gold
Skyler Stromsmoe was talking on the phone from the noisy Team Canada bus lurching from Ajax to the Pan Am Games Athletes' Village in ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
9
Premiere: Man Of Moon - 'This World'
... with Clash able to step in and premiere the flip. Lurching somewhere in the yawning chasm between Mogwai and Dinosaur Jr. you can check it out below. «Clash Magazine, Jul 15»
10
TSP Benefits Remain at Risk in Clash Over Highway Funding
There are plenty of other hang-ups to the multiyear bill, which would put a stop to the lurching series of short-term extensions Congress usually ... «GovExec.com, Jul 15»

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