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lunge

[luhnj]

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noun

a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.

any sudden forward movement; plunge.

verb (used without object)

to make a lunge or thrust; move with a lunge.

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verb (used with object)

to thrust (something) forward; cause to move with a lunge: lunging his finger accusingly.

Origin:
1725–35; earlier longe for French allonge (noun; construed as a longe), allonger (v.) to lengthen, extend, deliver (blows) < Vulgar Latin *allongāre, for Late Latin ēlongāre to elongate

Synonyms
2. rush, charge, lurch.

Example Sentences

Chávez latest lunge for power is alienating even some of his closest allies.

For their current task is not to lunge at each other, but to draw up long-term political platforms for their parties.

Just as the fiddler was making another lunge at the horse someone else's flash went off during my exposure.

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Chávez latest lunge for power is alienating even some of his closest allies.

For their current task is not to lunge at each other, but to draw up long-term political platforms for their parties.

Just as the fiddler was making another lunge at the horse someone else's flash went off during my exposure.

Then he would surge into a moment's jazzy lunge or pivot.

With a sudden lunge he slammed my back with both hands and charged off, slapping and stamping the ground.

Gant sped up again, but he had to lunge for the ball and it soared past him.

Drop down into a lunge squat, then contract your glutes as you push back up into an upright body position.

Short, powerful legs propel his trademark lethal lunge and fabled leaps.

He cannot be around kids as he will growl and lunge at them.

As his cowboys and city slickers lunge at each other.

The bravest open their mouths wide, a threatening expression for a monkey, and may even lunge toward the intruder.

Its industrial strength redoubled, it made the quantum lunge at prosperity and unity.

She will even sit and watch out our windows and bark and lunge at dogs walking in front of our.

If you lunge at this opportunity, however, the story comes out all wrong.

As his cowboys and city slickers lunge at each other in an.

The lunge and pressure of the language make even the weather a condition of the soul.

If the boy hadn't had his back turned he would have been able to dodge the stiff lunge.

The movies showed that when morays lunge for prey, they first grab it with the teeth on their front jaws.

Keitel is a knotted sack of gristle whose every movement has the feel of a lunge edged with pain.

The dogs lunge ahead, chasing pigeons and romping in the would-be forest.

The horrified women lunge for bath towels to use as temporary hijabs, or veils, to cover their hair.

One also noted the occasional lunge beyond the music's natural momentum.

Only then does he lunge or lean, looking uncomfortable or off-balance.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, verb, lunged, lung·ing.

longe.

Origin:
variant of longe < French; see longe, lune²

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World English Dictionary

lunge¹ (lʌndʒ)

—n
1.	a sudden forward motion
2.	fencing a thrust made by advancing the front foot and straightening the back leg, extending the sword arm forwards

—vb
3.	to move or cause to move with a lunge
4.	(intr) fencing to make a lunge

[C18: shortened form of obsolete C17 allonge, from French allonger to stretch out (one's arm), from Late Latin ēlongāre to lengthen. Compare elongate]

'lunger¹

—n

lunge² (lʌndʒ)

—n
1.	a rope used in training or exercising a horse

—vb
2.	(tr) to exercise or train (a horse) on a lunge

[C17: from Old French longe, shortened from allonge, ultimately from Latin longuslong¹; related to lunge¹]

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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

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sense of "to make a sudden forward rush" is from 1821.

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