(v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
(n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
(n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
(v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
(v. t.) To steal; to rob.
(n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
(v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
(v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
(v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(2) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(4) These countries which carry the burden of hosting refugees on a scale far higher and for far longer than anything experienced in Europe today must not be left in the lurch.
(5) Don't worry, there is a BTL section for you all to contribute to the debate, so we're not leaving you in the lurch.
(6) In a Guardian article in October, O'Brien directly challenged the new group when he wrote: "Obviously Cameron should ignore calls from the usual suspects to lurch rightward."
(7) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(8) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(9) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(10) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(11) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
(12) She lurches up from the corner with cheerful gloom.
(13) It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.
(14) A video appeared to capture the moment the attack began; the time was 10.30pm as the truck lurched forward, heading east, gathering speed for a calculated, unstoppable death charge towards 30,000 people.
(15) He warned of a dangerous lurch to the far right on continental Europe but made a point of distinguishing Ukip from the likes of the Front National in France and Golden Dawn in Greece.
(16) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Lurch from the Addams Family .
(17) Runaway inflation, rising crime and corruption have blighted the country, and the government has been accused of lurching from one policy to another, with little continuity undermining confidence in the country's economy.
(18) We need to know what protections they will be required to give to students, to ensure they are not left in the lurch and ripped off by institutions that may be focused on shareholders rather than students’ interests.” David Morris (@dgmorris295) By my calculations, #HEWhitePaper and BIS confirmation of RPI as inflation measure could mean £10,000 fees by 2020-21.
(19) Miliband may not have lurched left, but he's begun to break with that failed consensus.
(20) The battle to prevent Greece lurching into disorderly default continues as lawmakers return to the Athens parliament on Thursday to approve the next stage in the hugely unpopular austerity package.
Prowl
Definition:
(v. t.) To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.
(v. t.) To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.
(v. i.) To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.
(n.) The act of prowling.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a prowling, volcanic presence on the touchline.
(2) It did not seem April was specifically targeted, the judge said, telling Bridger he was seemingly "on the prowl for a young girl".
(3) It’s one thing to let the lion prowl around your stock pen, it’s another to open the gate and let him in,” he said.
(4) The multimillionaire darling of the grassroots party faithful had stormed out of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet only a year earlier, and was now prowling the backbenches, preparing to wield the knife that would finish her off.
(5) On the other side of the door gunmen were by now prowling the corridor, looking for British and American guests to kill.
(6) In response to Alex Salmond's manouevres, he has recently been out on the prowl himself, thinking aloud about what Scottish independence might mean for his country, and suggesting radical changes to the way that Britain's institutions work.
(7) Quite how the pandas will feel after 10 years of prowling this same patch is open to suggestion.
(8) I’ve been doing this since I was 22.” A couple of local union organizers prowled the sidewalks, asking applicants to sign union cards, but they walked right past Kevin Moynihan, who cut an imposing figure clad all in black.
(9) But who would wish to buy in an age when Uber’s smartphone app prowls the land?
(10) When they spotted a gang prowling in a street out of bounds to Muslims, they called their Christian vigilante counterparts.
(11) Gates would prowl the car park to see who came in on the weekend.
(12) The story begins in 1960 when the 43-year-old Anthony Burgess returned from Singapore to find the England he'd left in the late Forties transformed into an ugly divided country where the last seedy Teds prowled the streets of London and race riots had erupted in our big cities.
(13) A few years ago, on a field trip, he spotted a common leopard prowling well into snow leopard heights.
(14) News that he is on the prowl can cause his prey's management to be driven to distraction to the point where the company is in danger of imploding.
(15) When the rest of the industry was building computers as grey, rectangular metal boxes, for example, he was prowling department stores and streets looking for design metaphors.
(16) Banking is changing: statements are paperless, payments are mobile, branches are sparser, more automated, populated by beaming cashiers prowling around with iPads.
(17) With Boris Johnson on the prowl, they have to gently trash the mayor of London.
(18) Alistair Campbell prowled around snapping at the snappers' heels.
(19) Yet as Bush throws everything he has this week at boosting his moribund poll numbers – from announcing dozens of party endorsements, to buying airtime for political ads and prowling television studios like never before – some palpable question marks are beginning to hang over campaign stops like this.
(20) Microsoft's Kinectimals has prowled onto iOS and Android.