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Definition of lunge
1 : a quick thrust or jab (as of a sword) usually made by leaning or striding forward
2 : a sudden forward rush or reach made a lunge to catch the ball
3 : an exercise in which a person in a standing position steps forward into a position in which the front knee is deeply bent while keeping the torso erect and then returns back to the starting position; also : a similar exercise in which the initial movement is to the side rather than forward ◆A lunge can be done while holding weights or without weights.
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Examples of lunge in a Sentence
He made a lunge at me with his knife.
He made a desperate lunge for the ball.
Recent Examples of lunge from the Web
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The pictures show the friends doing a series of bodyweight exercises, like planks, lunges, and crunches.
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Kingsway senior Rachel Vick won the closest race of the day - and the year - by edging Hunterdon Central's Elena DiMarcello in the girls' 1,600 with a lunge at the finish line.
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Murray would lean, or even lunge, and somehow put his racket strings on seemingly unreachable shots.
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First to arrive Zelaya-Sorto pulls out a shank – a handmade knife – from inside his jumpsuit and lunges at Cook.
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To stay loose, Toelken did lunges and passed a football with pitching coach Patrick Hallmark in the interior of Hoover Stadium.
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The Gunners' quest was made more difficult soon after, though, when Laurent Koscielny was sent off on a straight red card for a flying, two-footed lunge on Enner Valencia.
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At one point, the sea lion lunges within inches of the little girl's face.
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Dynamic warm up - to active those muscles to be used in training or competition Dynamic stretching - like a lunge with a twist that a pitcher might use to simulate the motion to the plate.
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Origin and Etymology of lunge
modification of French allonge extension, reach, from Old French alonge, from alongier to lengthen, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from Latin ad- ad- + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus long
lunge
Definition of lunge
lunged
;lunging
intransitive verb
1 : to make a lunge : move with or as if with a lunge
2 : to perform a lunge exercise (see 1lunge 3)
transitive verb
: to thrust or propel (something, such as a blow) in a lunge
Examples of lunge in a Sentence
He lunged at me with his knife.
She lunged across the table.
The crocodile lunged at its prey.
The dog lunged for his throat.
Recent Examples of lunge from the Web
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Dubose refused commands to drop the weapon and lunged at the trooper with the knife extended, Sellers said.
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As the Tribune notes, March left the department after a report by the city inspector general accused him of falsely telling the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office that Laquan had lunged toward Van Dyke.
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The combination of the non-gearbox and the torquey engine also created some surging at low speeds; there’s little idle creep and the car tends to lunge as soon as the throttle is pressed.
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Charley Johnson, the 26-year-old quarterback of the St. Louis Cardinals, lunges into the end zone.
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After Jackson was seated the dog lunged twice at his face, inflicting deep bite wounds, the lawyer said.
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The path was too narrow for Borch to run past the raccoon, which had begun lunging at her.
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Surveillance video provided Wednesday to The Associated Press showed a man lunging at officers on the plaza outside the iconic cathedral, then being shot.
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A walk along the Greenbelt in Ann Morrison Park Monday afternoon quickly turned chaotic for one local couple when an unrestrained dog lunged aggressively at their own pups — frightening their new foster dog.
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First Known Use of lunge
1772
LUNGE Defined for English Language Learners
lunge
Definition of lunge for English Language Learners
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: to move or reach forward in a sudden, forceful way
LUNGE Defined for Kids
Definition of lunge for Students
: a sudden movement forward … the shark opened his mouth … and made a lunge at the peach. — Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
Definition of lunge for Students
lunged
;lunging
: to move or reach forward in a sudden forceful way She lunged across the table.
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