lunge

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  1. noun A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  2. noun A sudden forward movement or plunge.
  3. intransitive verb To make a sudden thrust or pass.
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  • It was a driving lunge, and Renny went staggering backward into the room A door clanged shut. —  167 - Target For Death
  • Other passengers were safe With a lunge, his daughter got in his path. —  003 - Quest of the Spider
  • Timbo would kill him in one lunge, and even if he could kill Timbo? —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
  • I caught his wrist as his arm swooped down, but the force of his lunge was such that the sharp tip of the blade penetrated the sillicane of my suit and made an incision in my breast. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
  • “Why ... you...” His lunge was abortive, as I tightened my grip just a little more. —  Challenging Destiny #19
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lunge:   lunged ·  lunging ·  lunges
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From alteration of obsolete allonge, to thrust, from French allonger, from Old French alongier, to lengthen : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + long, long (from Latin longus; see del-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly longe, lounge; by apheresis from alonge, allonge (apparently taken as a longe): see allonge.
  2. from lunge, n.
 

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