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lunge

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1. lunge - Noun

2. lunge - Verb

Meaning

A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.

To make a lunge.

To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.

Same as Namaycush.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn. Bill Bryson

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. Ann Voskamp

And now," Herod calmly said, "You can kill all the new-born....Kill them all....take your men and let your men take their swords. Make sure they're sharp. To Bethlehem. Hack. Lunge. Chop. Kill. Anthony Burgess

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.' Catherine Zeta-Jones

Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it. Nick Flynn

All it needs is a toenail to poke home, but Abraham must have trimmed his last night and his lunge can’t quite connect. Source: Internet

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