lunge
UK/lʌnd͡ʒ/
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Australia/lɐnd͡ʒ/
lunge noun: a sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges or (rare) lungeing, present participle lunging, simple past and past participle lunged)
- To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
lunge meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
lunge in Urdu
- لپک کر ڈھکیلنا
lunge in Bengali
- ঝাপিয়ে পড়া, হঠাৎ আক্রমণ করা, লঞ্জ
lunge in Malayalam
- വാൾപ്പയറ്റിൽ പെട്ടെന്നുളള വെട്ട്, പെട്ടെന്നുള്ള കുത്ത്, അശ്വാഭ്യസന രംഗം
lunge in Kannada
- ಚುಚ್ಚು, ತಿವಿ
Examples of lunge in a sentence
- Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr.
- My little dog was leashed to a bush, lunging and barking.
- If the leash came loose, her lunge could send her tumbling down the mountainside.
Forms of lunge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lunges |
| alternative form | longe |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lunges |
| present participle | lunging |
| past participle | lunged |
| past | lunged |
| third-person singular present (rare) | lungeing |
Origin of lunge
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.
Words formed from lunge
- lunge whip
- lungeing cavesson
- lungeing rein
Phrases with lunge
Words that rhyme with lunge
Questions about lunge
- What does lunge mean?
- Lunge means a sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- What is lunge in Urdu?
- Lunge in Urdu is لپک کر ڈھکیلنا. See Lunge meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is lunge?
- Lunge can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lunge?
- Lunge is pronounced /lʌnd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lunge?
- The plural of lunge is lunges.
Words near lunge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lunge (page history and authors); lunge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Lunge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lunge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lunge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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