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Lunge   /ləndʒ/   Listen
Lunge

noun
1.
The act of moving forward suddenly.  Synonym: lurch.
2.
(fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward.  Synonyms: passado, straight thrust.
verb
(past & past part. lunged; pres. part. lunging)
1.
Make a thrusting forward movement.  Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust.



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"Lunge" Quotes from Famous Books



... so stiff.' said Pike, and we began again. Of course I was as a child before this man, and again and again he planted a button where he pleased, and seemed, I thought, to lunge more fiercely than is decent, for I was dotted with blue ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... a witness of the way you acted when I found it!" exclaimed Bill. He stood up, and Frank scrambled to his feet. He watched Bill furtively until he glanced aside, then he made a mad lunge toward him. Bill was too quick for him and once more Frank, sobbing with rage, went ...
— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb

... Chigwooltz, and croak softly as a signal. At the sound one of the young herons would hurry forward eagerly; follow his mother's bill, which remained motionless, pointing all the while; twist his head till he saw the frog's back in the mud, and then lunge at it like lightning. Generally he got his frog, and through your glass you would see the unfortunate creature wriggling and kicking his way into Quoskh's yellow beak. If the lunge missed, the mother's ...
— Wood Folk at School • William J. Long

... nature of a triumphal procession conducted at thrilling speed. Perhaps there was a curve of infinite grace, a sudden hollow explosive effect made by the passing of a signal-box that was close to the track, and then the deadly lunge to shave the edge of a long platform. There were always a number of people standing afar, with their eyes riveted upon this projectile, and to be on the engine was to feel their interest and admiration in the terror and grandeur of this sweep. A boy allowed to ride ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... Colin vaguely—for everything seemed reeling about him—saw Hank lunge with the long steel lance. The suction half whirled the boat round, but the whale sounded a little, coming up to the surface forty feet away and spouting hollowly. Even to the boy's untrained ear there was a difference, and when he noticed that blood was mixed with the vapor thrown out ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler


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