Lunge

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  • noun. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  • noun. A sudden forward movement or plunge.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sudden thrust or pass.
  • intransitive verb. To move with a sudden thrust.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (someone) to lunge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In fencing, a thrust.
  • noun. Any sudden forward movement of a person or thing resembling the lunge of a fencer; a plunge; a lurch: as, the lunge of a coach.
  • To thrust, as in fencing, with the sword or foil; make a thrust forward; plunge.
  • To hide; skulk.
  • To cause to move in a plunging or jumping manner, as a horse held by a long rein, for exercise or training.
  • noun. A long rope used to train a horse; also, the circular track or ring where horses are trained by cantering them around the edge of the ring in one direction with the aid of a lunge.
  • noun. Same as longe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  • intransitive verb. To make a lunge.
  • transitive verb. To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
  • noun. Same as namaycush.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  • noun. 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 is used to control the animal while lungeing.
  • noun. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.
  • noun. A fish, the namaycush.
  • verb. To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
  • verb. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a thrusting forward movement
  • noun. (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
  • noun. the act of moving forward suddenly
  • Word Usage
    "In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans."
    Form
    lunged  lunging  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    expunge  grunge  plunge  sponge  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amble  barge  bound  bowl along  bundle  
    variant
    namaycush  
    verb-form
    lunged  lunges  lunging