lurch

Converse of object

• give: Suddenly the ship gave an almighty lurch that threw me out my chair.
• see: I seen the body lurch and I saw the body lurch again, I heard another shot that missed.

Adjective modifier

• sudden: Of course, events in Russia remain critical and the potential for a sudden lurch into darkness remains.

Modifying Another Word

• violently: As I pushed the starter button the bike lurched violently to the right.
• wildly: The team's form lurched wildly throughout the 1908-09 season.
• suddenly: Yes, the story lurches suddenly from school comedy to War of the Worlds mayhem.
• forward: Frequently, the mule would lurch forward to snatch a mouthful of wild fennel.
• about: If three sheets are loose and blowing about in the wind then the boat will lurch about like a drunken sailor.
• back: Do you twig that these parliamentarians are not going to let us lurch back into the rut?

Followed by an intransitive particle

• over: INVENTORY You are carrying: a spell book a silver coin a pouch The drunk stands and lurches over to you.
• off: I hate the way you lurch off sideways into air Having read my thoughts against you.
• out: Suddenly a Tiger lurched out of the hollow just in front of the gun.
• up: Half an hour in the galley & I lurched up on deck to join the main group.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: Higgins lurched up the slope like a thunderous bear toward Mr Jones's pew.

Used with why or when

• when: There's no heaving or lurching even when the suspension is set to its usual comfort mode.

Preposition: in

• direction: Consider this from a disabled person's perspective, where the balance of power between patient and doctor takes an extreme lurch in one direction.

Preposition: from

• crisis: The nation needs a solid strategy for rail to prevent Amtrak lurching from crisis to crisis.
• side: The frame was shaking violently around them, lurching from side to side on its suspension.
• disaster: Why do they seem to lurch from one disaster to another?

Noun used with modifier

• stomach: He read a little of what was on the screen, and felt his stomach lurch.