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lungeing

lungeing is the present participle and gerund of lunge.

lungeing is the alternative form of lunging.

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

Meaning of lunging

Noun

lunging (plural lungings)

  1. The act of one who lunges; a lunge.
    • Man the creature seemingly following his desires and ambitions is held in check and swayed from his blind lungings about the earth by the Spirit of the God who made him.c. 1874, Edward M. Matthews, The Church of God

Forms of lungeing

plurallungeings

Phrases with lungeing

Questions about lungeing

What is lungeing the present participle and gerund of?
Lungeing is the present participle and gerund of lunge.

Words near lungeing in the dictionary

  1. lungectomy
  2. lunged
  3. lungedness
  4. lungee
  5. lungees
  6. lungeing
  7. lungeing cavesson
  8. lungeing cavessons
  9. lungeing rein
  10. lungeing reins
  11. lungeings

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