lurch | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: stagger, stumble |
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(noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lunge |
(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: pitch, pitching |
(noun) a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage) | - |
(verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
(verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
(verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
(verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
lurcher | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurker, skulker |
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lure | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: bait, decoy |
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(noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, enticement |
(noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener |
(verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
lurid | (adjective) shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke | - |
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(adjective) ghastly pale | - |
(adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: shocking |
(adjective) horrible in fierceness or savagery | - |
luridly | (adverb) in a lurid manner | - |
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luridness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness |
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(noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: sensationalism |
lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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(verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
(verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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