Usually means: Moved suddenly and unsteadily forward.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurched: Merriam-Webster
  2. lurched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lurched: Vocabulary.com
  4. lurched: Wordnik
  5. lurched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lurched: Wiktionary
  7. Lurched, lurched: Dictionary.com
  8. lurched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lurched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Lurched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. lurched: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lurched: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurched: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurched: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurched: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lurch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lurch)

noun:  A sudden or unsteady movement.
verb:  To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
verb:  (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
verb:  (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
verb:  (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To rob.
noun:  (dialectal) A lift or heave.
noun:  A predicament or difficult situation.
noun:  An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
noun:  A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
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