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ABRUPT |
Sudden (movement) |
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SURGE |
Sudden forward movement |
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TWITCH |
Sudden jerking movement |
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LUNG |
Make a sudden movement |
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JERK |
Stupid person to make sudden movement |
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START |
A sudden movement to begin with |
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VOLT |
A sudden movement to avoid a thrust. |
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WHISK |
To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile
movement. |
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MOVEMENT |
Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or
sudden, movement. |
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YERK |
To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick
or strike suddenly; to jerk. |
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HITCH |
A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave
his trousers a hitch. |
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POP |
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to
move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off,
etc. |
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DODGE |
The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden
starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a
cunning trick; an artifice. |
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DASH |
A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke
or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash
of rain. |
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LURCH |
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. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind. |
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ELATER |
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when
laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement
of the arti... |
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ERUPTION |
...) A
violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a
fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile
mo... |
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HICCOUGH |
A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration,
consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with
closure of the ... |