Synonyms of lurches

lurches 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of lurch

1

as in sways

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions

the room lurched with every jolt of the earthquake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sways
• rocks
• shakes
• tosses
• careens
• halts
• wobbles
• vibrates
• rolls
• jerks
• tumbles
• seesaws
• falters
• staggers
• vacillates
• stumbles
• wabbles
• totters
• waddles
• wavers
• flounders
• hobbles
• jolts
• weaves
• toddles
• teeters
• oscillates
• undulates
• reels
• pitches
• blunders
• hitches
• waggles
• dodders
• bucks
• wags

2

as in staggers

to move forward while swaying from side to side

dressed in his zombie costume, the boy lurched down the street in his quest for Halloween candy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• staggers
• shuffles
• weaves
• stumbles
• totters
• waddles
• careens
• stomps
• teeters
• rolls
• sways
• reels
• rocks
• wobbles
• dodders
• wavers
• seesaws
• flounders
• clomps
• shambles
• barges
• clumps
• lumbers
• wabbles
• blunders
• pounds
• lumps
• stamps
• scuffs
• swags
• tramps
• tromps
• scuffles
• galumphs

lurches

2 of 2

noun

plural of lurch

as in collapses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collapses
• washouts
• flops
• upsets
• setbacks
• fizzles
• whitewashes
• debacles
• fiascoes
• shutouts
• failures
• débâcles
• overthrows
• defeats
• trimmings
• routs
• nonsuccesses
• lickings
• beatings
• whippings
• drubbings
• shellackings
• losses
• plasterings
• lumps

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wins
• triumphs
• victories
• successes
• sweeps
• accomplishments
• achievements
• landslides
• runaways
• blowouts
• romps
• cakewalks
• walkaways
• walkovers