lurch, prowl, defeat

Aldo D. (Belgium)
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  1. lurch
    move suddenly or as if unable to control one's movements
  2. prowl
    move about in or as if in a predatory manner
  3. defeat
    an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
  4. licking
    the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
  5. shift
    move very slightly
  6. pitch
    the high or low quality of a sound
  7. keel
    one of the main longitudinal beams of the hull of a vessel
  8. swag
    goods or money obtained illegally
  9. reel
    a winder around which flexible materials can be wound
  10. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  11. stagger
    walk with great difficulty
  12. skunk
    American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
  13. lunge
    the act of moving forward suddenly
Created on Tue Apr 03 09:50:57 EDT 2012

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