| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  l nj |
| NOUN: | 1. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword. 2. A sudden forward movement or plunge. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: lunged, lung·ing, lung·es
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make a sudden thrust or pass. 2. To move with a sudden thrust. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause (someone) to lunge. | | ETYMOLOGY: | 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 Appendix I).
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