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View definitions for lunge

lunge

noun as in pounce

verb as in pounce, dive for

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Experts advise humans not to interact with animals believed to be sick because they might bite or lunge without warning.

When other employees tried to intervene, Eis lunged at them with a knife before running from the store, according to prosecutors.

Ricotta claimed he had been trying to hide behind his wife as his stepson lunged at him with a knife, accidentally stabbing his mother in the process.

From BBC

He lunged, grabbed the ball by his fingertips, then tucked it away as he’ fell to the ground.

Then, he alleged, the inmate “lunged his upper body forward.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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