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lunged

/lʌnd͡ʒd/

lunged is the simple past and past participle of lunge.

Meaning of lunge

Verb

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges or (rare) lungeing, present participle lunging, simple past and past participle lunged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
    • I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
  2. (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

See all 6 meanings of lunge

Adjective

IPA/lʌŋd/

lunged (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds, often) Having lungs (of a specified type).
    • He had grown a big strong fellow, but I had no difficulty in identifying the little squinting child, who begged, and sold flowers and songs in public-house bars, with the strong loud-lunged vendor of mackerel.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Origin of lunged

From lunge + -ed.

From lung + -ed.

Words formed from lunged

Phrases with lunged

Words that rhyme with lunged

Questions about lunged

What does lunged mean?
Lunged means having lungs (of a specified type).
What is lunged the simple past and past participle of?
Lunged is the simple past and past participle of lunge.
What part of speech is lunged?
Lunged is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lunged?
Lunged is pronounced /lʌnd͡ʒd/.

Words near lunged in the dictionary

  1. lunge
  2. lunge line
  3. lunge lines
  4. lungectomies
  5. lungectomy
  6. lunged
  7. lungedness
  8. lungee
  9. lungees
  10. lungeing
  11. lungeing cavesson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunged (page history and authors); lunge (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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