STAGGER vs LURCH: NOUN
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural.
- Plural Perplexities; doubts; bewilderment; confusion.
- Hence plural A feeling of giddiness, reeling, or unsteadiness; a sensation which causes reeling.
- Distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death.
- A sudden tottering motion, swing, or reel of the body as if one were about to fall, as through tripping, giddiness, or intoxication.
- A tottering, swaying, or reeling motion.
- Any of various diseases in animals, especially horses, cattle, or other domestic animals, that are characterized by a lack of coordination in moving, a staggering gait, and frequent falling.
- A staggered pattern, arrangement, or order.
- Plural One of various forms of functional and organic disease of the brain and spinal cord in domesticated animals, especially horses and cattle: more fully called blind staggers.
- An unsteady uneven gait
- A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
- 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.
- To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty.
- A sudden or unsteady movement.
- An abrupt rolling or pitching.
- A staggering or tottering movement or gait.
- An old game, the nature of which is unknown.
- In cribbage, the position of a player when his opponent has won every point (61 holes) before he himself has made 30 holes; also, the state of the game under these circumstances; a double game.
- [⟨ lurch, verb] A cheat; a swindle.
- To leave suddenly or unexpectedly in an embarrassing predicament.
- The losing position of a cribbage player who has not passed the halfway mark at the end of the game.
- A sudden lateral movement or swaying to one side, as of a ship, a carriage, or a staggering person.
- Hence Any sudden or unexpected shift or change of position.
- An inclination; disposition; leaning.
- 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
- An unsteady uneven gait
- 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.
STAGGER vs LURCH: VERB
- Walk with great difficulty
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements
- To arrange in a systematic order
- Astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
- Doubt, waver, be shocked
- Defeat by a lurch
- Move abruptly
- Loiter about, with no apparent aim
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements
- To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
- Move slowly and unsteadily
STAGGER vs LURCH: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To place on or as if on alternating sides of a center line; set in a zigzag row or rows.
- To arrange (the wings of a biplane) so that the leading edge of one wing is either ahead of or behind the leading edge of the other wing.
- To arrange (the start of a race) with the starting point in the outside lanes progressively closer to the finish line so as to neutralize the advantage of competing in the shorter inside lanes.
- To move or stand unsteadily, as if under a great weight; totter. : blunder.
- To cause to totter, sway, or reel.
- To astonish, shock, or overwhelm.
- To begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
- To arrange in alternating or overlapping time periods.
- To make an abrupt sudden movement.
- To move with abrupt movements; move haltingly or jerkily. : blunder.
- To roll or pitch suddenly or erratically.
- To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man; to move forward while lurching.
- To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
- To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
- To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
STAGGER vs LURCH: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To cause to reel or totter.
- To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
- To steal; to rob.
STAGGER vs LURCH: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To arrange in a zigzag order; specifically, in wheel-making, to set (the spokes) in the hub alternately inside and outside (or more or less to one side of) a line drawn round the hub.
- To cause to hesitate, waver, or doubt; fill with doubts or misgivings; make less steady, determined, or confident.
- To cause to reel, totter, falter, or be unsteady; shake.
- Synonyms Totter, etc. See reel.
- To hesitate; begin to doubt or waver in purpose; falter; become less confident or determined; waver; vacillate.
- To walk or stand unsteadily; reel; totter.
- To sulk; pout.
- To shift; dodge; play tricks.
- To roll or sway suddenly to one side, or from side to side, as a ship in a heavy sea or a carriage on a rough road.
- To walk with an uneven or shifting gait; stagger: as, he went lurching down the street.
- To capture criminally or dishonestly; appropriate; steal.
- To forestall; rob; swindle; cheat.
- To leave in the lurch; disappoint.
- To win a double game in cribbage, piquet, etc.
- To take (game) with a lurcher. See lurcher, 2.
- To swallow or devour; eat up; consume.
- To lie in concealment; lurk; move stealthily.
- (idiom) (in the lurch) In a difficult or embarrassing position.
STAGGER vs LURCH: RELATED WORDS
- Toggle, Schedule, Switch, Alternate, Stun, Totter, Swag, Keel, Distribute, Flounder, Stack, Reel, Lurch, Careen, Stumble
- Skunk, Pitching, Keel, Desert, Pitch, Reel, Lunge, Desolate, Prowl, Forsake, Shift, Abandon, Stumble, Stagger, Careen
STAGGER vs LURCH: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Teeter, Phase, Toggle, Schedule, Switch, Alternate, Stun, Totter, Keel, Distribute, Flounder, Stack, Reel, Lurch, Careen
- Predicament, Mercy, Mess, Skunk, Keel, Desert, Pitch, Reel, Lunge, Desolate, Forsake, Shift, Abandon, Stagger, Careen
STAGGER vs LURCH: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Or stagger your rest days throughout the week.
- Some are eerily agile, others totter or stagger.
- He managed to stagger back into the bedroom.
- To make this exercise easier, stagger your stance.
- Does this with the Repeating Crossbow WA stagger?
- Stagger break periods to avoid crowding in breakrooms.
- Stagger joints upstream edge of each sod strip.
- Never fear, simply stagger your planting of it.
- Unlike Full Body Stagger, this option does not stun the player, it simply activates a camera effect that simulates a lighter, shorter stagger.
- Headshots and critical strike no longer automatically apply the lightest level of stagger to enemies, regardless of their stagger resistance.
- Demand for coal can fluctuate, leaving ports in the lurch.
- Completely unnecessary foul left his side in the lurch.
- We could not leave our ally in the lurch.
- THROTTLE BEFORE THE TRUCK TAKES OFF IN A LURCH.
- Lurch avoidance strategy and its implementation in AMT vehicles.
- Thinking about it still makes my stomach lurch.
- These changes left existing customers in a lurch.
- Iron Curtain, now lurch in the Digital Divide.
- CLO debt prices lurch back from their lows.
- "Lurch" was revealed during the original TV series to be a surname, as there was a "Mother Lurch" who appeared in one episode.
STAGGER vs LURCH: QUESTIONS
- What is the Grateful Dead's version of Stagger Lee?
- What is the purpose of stagger on a floating floor?
- Do nurseries need to stagger their start and finish times?
- Is there a way to inflict Sunder/stagger on enemies?
- What is the best way to increase stagger in Skyrim?
- How much does instant chain increase stagger point?
- What is the standard Stagger for hardwood flooring?
- Should I stagger my nursing school prerequisite classes?
- Should married couples stagger their retirement dates?
- How much stagger do you need to win the stagger effect?
- What ever happened to lurch from the Lone Lone Ranger?
- What song does lurch play at the end of Addams Family Reunion?
- Did LuLaRoe leave us in a lurch with the perfect tank?
- Why does my caravan give a lurch when I unhitch it?
- Why does my car lurch forward when stopped or idle?
- When did lurch learn to dance on the Addams Family?
- What happened to the actors who played Lurch and thing?
- Is Volkswagen of Union leaving customers in the lurch?
- Who played Lurch in the original Charles Addams cartoon?
- What episode does Morticia teach lurch how to dance?