Antonyms for lunge
lʌndʒlunge

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1. • Motion

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. lurch, lungenoun

   the act of moving forward suddenly

   Synonyms:
   stagger, lurch, stumble, pitch, pitching, passado, straight thrust

2. lunge, straight thrust, passadoverb

   (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward

   Synonyms:
   passado, lurch, straight thrust

3. lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrustverb

   make a thrusting forward movement

   Synonyms:
   thrust, cast, squeeze, hurl, throw, stuff, push up, pierce, shove, hurtle, force

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. lungeverb

   Synonyms:
   allonge, longe, thrust

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. withdraw

   retreat, regroup, pull back, recoil

   Submitted by rinat on March 29, 2016  

2. recoil

   to jump into a foreword thrust, as to attack or stab

   i lunged into battle with my army and won!

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use lunge in a sentence?

1. Mark Johnson:

   I kind of slide and my foot is stuck in the mud, and the next thing I know, I see the lunge, he starts clamping down pretty tight and he started to pull, and the next thing I do, I instantly, here's my fingers, I poke through the eye.

2. Richie McGinniss:

   It was as if, you know, if you were to lunge at somebody, if anybody were to lunge, Richie McGinniss would probably stop Richie McGinniss, you know, from falling face down on the ground, but the shots were fired in the exact instance that Joseph Rosenbaum momentum was going forward and that continued until Joseph Rosenbaum landed on the ground.

3. Joe Chenelly:

   His fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground.

4. Joe Chenelly:

   His right hand came up, I assume out of his pocket, and he had a blade on his hand, his fingers were like two finger holes in the blade and lunged at the congressman. And Congressman Zeldin blocked the first lunge. And then as he tried to lunge again, I grabbed him from behind and tackled him down to the ground and held him on the ground.

5. Arsenio Manzanares:

   It's become a security problem to bring trucks to big supermarket stores, this wasn't a problem before, but now with these queues, people see a truck and they lunge for it.

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