Lurch is valid Scrabble Word

Is lurch a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for LURCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to roll or pitch suddenly
make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger
tilt suddenly
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
To steal; to rob.
To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
walk as if unable to control one\'s movements

NOUN:

an abrupt uncontrolled movement, especially an unsteady tilt or roll
leave an associate or friend abruptly and without assistance or support when they are in a difficult situation
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
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.
an unsteady uneven gait
a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)
abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
the act of moving forward suddenly
lurching movement

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to sway abruptly

Words related to LURCH

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Words that contain LURCH

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How to use LURCH in a sentence

You never heard of a newspaper that failed to appear just because the mechanical force deserted and left it in the lurch.
As it happened I had no choice in the matter, and we came together suddenly and unexpectedly with a lurch of the vessel.
He sometimes leaves them in the lurch, and is sometimes left in the lurch by them.
The weather had taken a sudden backward lurch into winter again, so we had a fire.
He was to atone for having left Dick in the lurch by marrying Maria.
I was standing by him when he got up with a surprising lurch and put a hand on my shoulder.
There came a lurch, a straining of ropes and a creaking of masts, and the good ship Saint Laurent swam out to sea.
She might not have wakened then if the car had not given a lurch, with a jar which brought every one to his feet.
She prepared him an icy bow, which she was in the very act of executing when he made a sudden lurch forward, and caught her round the waist.
Again as the gun exploded I saw that backward lurch of the bird, and heard the clap of the air upon its wings.

On the other hand, I have seen most remarkable people left in the lurch because of their carelessness.
With a violent lurch he broke it, leaped from the door, landed sprawling alongside the track, and was off in pursuit of the strange animal.
It came up suddenly, and some ladies sitting on a bench were swept off by a roll and sudden lurch.
In this case, there appeared a separate squad, to wit, the Pinckney interest, which is a distinct thing, and will be seen sometimes to lurch the President.
Then, thinking better of it, he reflected that if la Peyrade suddenly left him in the lurch, Cerizet might possibly prove a precious resource.
To leave our supposed friends in the lurch was out of the question.
I had been asleep for perhaps two hours, when I was awakened by the car giving a violent lurch, and then suddenly stopping.
A throbbing, pendulum lurch! We ran down to the corridor incline.
Seeing the strangers, he hesitated in his lurch toward the water pail, steadied himself on wide-spread feet, very flat on the floor, and waved his right hand slowly in the air.
Some of these tribes did support Austria, were left in the lurch by her when she made peace in 1791, and were punished by the Turks.
He felt the ship lurch away from her course, and saw the quick swerve of the compass indicator over his head.
She gave a lurch and pitched back with so much force that a wooden box, containing a depth bomb and securely fastened to the after deck, suddenly broke.
The head was not turned, the body did not lurch or sway.
Many a man would have left her in the lurch to take care of the youngster by herself.
As they entered the first layer of clouds, she gave a lurch forward, but with wonderful control the young pilot righted her.
In my bewilderment I imagined many things, even to the extreme that he might have left us in the lurch.
After the first senseless lurch the body settled back and slid to the position in which it was found.
The man that induced me and Harrison to come out here left us in the lurch three days after we reached St.
Lady Victoria caught her and held her tightly, or she would have lost her footing with the lurch of the vessel.
And then there was a frightful lurch and jar, and the big car bounded into the air, and turned over in the ditch.

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