0 past simple and past participle of lurch
1 to move in a way that is not regular or normal, especially making sudden movements backwards or forwards or from side to side:
In the early 1930s, as the industry lurched from crisis to crisis, the jobber's position was jeopardised further.
As the economy lurched down from the 1680s, however, civic funding ran out and urban improvement ground to a halt.
As the project has lurched inevitably from one calamity to another, the case for planning has grown by leaps and bounds.
It seems to us that what we have now is policies that have completely failed, strategies that have lurched from one to another.
All through my young years it seemed as though we lurched from one crisis to the next.
The company's attitude to the drought has lurched from abject complacency to total panic.
Now we have lurched rather the other way.
In my time, it has lurched from strong to weak, from bold to bland, from coherent to confused, and from determined to downright dangerous.
