(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.
Tumble
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
(v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
(v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
(v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
(v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
(n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(3) Spain's IBEX has tumbled more than 2%, despite its central bank predicting that the country's recession is over.
(4) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(5) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(6) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(7) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(8) Addition of a micellar solution of oleoylphosphocholine had no influence on the motional freedom of the tryptophyl residue but approximately doubled the correlation time of the phenyl ring, indicating an increase of the effective volume of the tumbling particle due to lipid-protein interaction.
(9) Bring a brilliant idea to life and watch the money tumble in.
(10) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
(11) Similarly, a functioning electron transport pathway was shown to be essential for the tumbling response of S. typhimurium and E. coli to intense light (290 to 530 nm).
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nigel Pearson has words with Crystal Palace’s James McArthur after their unfortunate tumble led to an exchange.
(13) ESR spectra obtained after covalent incorporation of SL-2N3-ATP into Ca2+-ATPase and removal of freely tumbling SL-2N3-ATP exhibited motionally constrained species indicative of distinct and possibly adjacent ATP-binding sites.
(14) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(15) Having been on the pitch for only three minutes, Oscar was slipped through one on one by Eden Hazard and knocked the ball past Davis before tumbling to the ground.
(16) UK unemployment has tumbled to its lowest level since 2008, when the fall of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers brought the global economy to the brink of collapse.
(17) Then King Henrik is hit on the ensuing play by Dustin Brown, who had been hit by Marc Staal and went tumbling - all are OK.
(18) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(19) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(20) From a comparison of the temperature dependence of the probe's tumbling rate in model aqueous systems and in the muscle we concluded that in the muscle the probe was undergoing fast exchange between sites of different mobility.