| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A sudden motion, such as a pull: jerk, snap, tug, twitch, wrench, yank. See MOVE, PUSH. | | VERB: | 1. To move or cause to move with a sudden abrupt motion: jerk, snap, twitch, wrench, yank. See MOVE, PUSH. 2. To lean suddenly, unsteadily, and erratically from the vertical axis: pitch, roll, seesaw, yaw. See MOVE, STRAIGHT. 3. To walk unsteadily: falter, reel, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, weave, wobble. See MOVE.
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