lunge

1. 1.

   make a thrusting forward movement

   Synonymshurlhurtlethrust

   Broadermove

   Narrowerdartriposte

Other forms of lunge

plural

lunges·

past tense

lunged·

present participle

lunging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lunge

What does lunge mean?

lunge means "the act of moving forward suddenly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lunge?

lunge has 1 syllable: lunge. In IPA it is /ˈlʌndʒ/.

What is another word for lunge?

Close synonyms include lurch, straight thrust, passado, hurl, hurtle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lunge a common word?

lunge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.