0 past simple and past participle of lunge
1 to move forward suddenly and with force, especially in order to attack someone:
The primus burned badly, candles went out, matches would not strike - the men lunged for the entrance and clawed an opening.
The leading dog lunged forward and snapped its teeth round the hare's hindquarters.
He lunged to grab another one from storage as the helicopter, a growing, blazing fireball, arched across the sky.
Schene then lunged through the door and kicked her.
It lunged at the farmer, which speared the lindworm in the mouth with a stake he was using to build the fences.
He then removed the radiator cap, a snake lunged out and a geyser of water followed.
Some of these ancient lunged fish were the ancestors of tetrapods.
As they evolved from lunged fish, amphibians had to make certain adaptations for living on land including the need to develop new means of locomotion.
