Definitions for lunge

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Spelling: [luhnj]
IPA: /lʌndʒ/

Lunge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in lunge (eglnu).

Definitions for lunge

noun

  1. a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
  2. any sudden forward movement; plunge.

noun, verb

  1. longe.

verb (used with object)

  1. to thrust (something) forward; cause to move with a lunge:

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a lunge or thrust; move with a lunge.

Origin of lunge

1725-35; earlier longe for French allonge (noun; construed as a longe), allonger (v.) to lengthen, extend, deliver (blows) Vulgar Latin *allongāre, for Late Latin ēlongāre to Examples for lunge

But Gregory's answer had been a lunge which the boy had been forced to parry.

That lunge over the guard was a thing to be proud of; and, by Jove!

It seemed curious to Roger that the burro did not kick nor lunge.

Dawn Hochsprung was a beloved principal who lost her life trying to lunge at the gunman.

In the thin air, his lunge was silent, and he was grabbing her before she knew he was up.

Think like a fencer: parry on Medicare; lunge at the stimulus.

But the lunge did not reach Benedetto's heart, but that of the young girl!

In effect, what I did was lunge and force the issue, thereby ruining the mood.

A third stooped low with his hands on his hips that he might not lose a lunge or a parry.

He turned his back, and I saw his body go forward to the lunge.

Word Value for lunge
Scrable

6

Words with friends

10

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