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lunge

1  [luhnj] noun, verb, lunged, lung⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
2. any sudden forward movement; plunge.
–verb (used without object)
3. to make a lunge or thrust; move with a lunge.
–verb (used with object)
4. to thrust (something) forward; cause to move with a lunge: lunging his finger accusingly.
Origin:
1725–35; earlier longe for F allonge (n.; construed as a longe), allonger (v.) to lengthen, extend, deliver (blows) < VL *allongāre, for LL ēlongāre to elongate

Synonyms:
2. rush, charge, lurch.
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lunge

2  [luhnj]
–noun, verb, lunged, lung⋅ing.
longe.
Origin:
var. of longe < F; see longe, lune 2

longe

  [luhnj, lonj] noun, verb, longed, longe⋅ing.
–noun
1. a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.
–verb (used with object)
2. to train or exercise (a horse) by use of a longe.
Also, lunge.

Origin:
< F, OF: n. use of longe (adj.) < L longa, fem. of longus long
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lunge   (lŭnj)   
n.  

  1. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.

  2. A sudden forward movement or plunge.

v.   lunged, lung·ing, lung·es

v.   intr.

  1. To make a sudden thrust or pass.

  2. To move with a sudden thrust.

v.   tr.
To cause (someone) to lunge.

[From alteration of obsolete allonge, to thrust, from French allonger, from Old French alongier, to lengthen : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + long, long (from Latin longus; see del-1 in Indo-European roots).]
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Word Origin & History

lunge 
1735, "a thrust with a sword," originally a fencing term, shortened from allonge, from Fr. allonger "to extend, thrust," from O.Fr. alongier "to lengthen, make long," from à "to" + O.Fr. long, from L. longus "long" (see long (adj.)). The verb is attested from 1809; the sense of "to make a sudden forward rush" is from 1821.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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