At length, in a desperate lunge, which he followed with an attempt to close, Bucklaw's foot slipped, and he fell on the short grassy turf on which they were fighting.
Source: tatoeba (7752269)
Lunge
//lʌnd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "lunge" (114 found)
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2 entriesderived
3 entriesmanner of
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26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
54 translations across 17 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- atılmaq verb (to make a sudden movement)
Bulgarian
4 entries- мушкане noun (sudden movement)
- на́пад noun (exercise)
- напад noun (sudden movement)
- водя кон по кръг verb (to work a horse in a circle around a handler)
Czech
4 entries- skok vpřed noun (sudden movement)
- výpad noun (sudden movement)
- výpad noun (exercise)
- lonžovat verb (to work a horse in a circle around a handler)
Danish
2 entries- stød noun (sudden movement)
- udfald noun (sudden movement)
Finnish
4 entries- askelkyykky noun (exercise)
- syöksy noun (sudden movement)
- juoksuttaa verb (to work a horse in a circle around a handler)
- syöksyä verb (to make a sudden movement)
French
2 entries- bond (vers l'avant) noun (sudden movement)
- fente noun (exercise)
German
4 entries- Ausfall noun (sudden movement)
- Ausfallschritt noun (exercise)
- ausfallen verb (to make a sudden movement)
- losstürzen verb (to make a sudden movement)
Hebrew
2 entries- זינוק noun (sudden movement)
- תנועה קדימה עם חרב noun (sudden movement)
Hungarian
1 entries- futószáraz verb (to work a horse in a circle around a handler)
Italian
3 entries- affondo noun (sudden movement)
- affondo noun (exercise)
- allungo noun (sudden movement)
Māori
1 entries- whātoro noun (sudden movement)
Polish
4 entries- rzut noun (sudden movement)
- sztych noun (sudden movement)
- wykrok noun (exercise)
- rzucić się verb (to make a sudden movement)
Portuguese
4 entries- afundo noun (exercise)
- impulso noun (sudden movement)
- passada noun (exercise)
- impulsionar verb (to make a sudden movement)
Russian
4 entries- вы́пад noun (sudden movement)
- вы́пад noun (exercise)
- бро́ситься verb (to make a sudden movement)
- ри́нуться verb (to make a sudden movement)
Spanish
4 entries- embestida noun (sudden movement)
- embestida noun (exercise)
- lanzarse verb (to make a sudden movement)
- varear verb (to work a horse in a circle around a handler)
Swedish
4 entries- attack noun (sudden movement)
- utfall noun (sudden movement)
- utfall noun (exercise)
- göra ett utfall verb (to make a sudden movement)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ви́пад noun (exercise)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The sound station's initiate recordings will be dogs barking excitedly, then falling silent as they lunge into their harnesses. Then it will be sled runners soughing in deep snow.
Source: tatoeba (12377279)
A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.
Source: wiktionary
I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.