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lunge

noun as in pounce

verb as in pounce, dive for

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Johnson was sent off in the second half when his lunge on Marcos Lopez was upgraded from a booking to a red card after VAR intervened.

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The wolves lunged, snapping their jaws at the cow’s skinny legs.

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Lloyd-Hall, now aged 18, pushed forward and lunged at Harry with a pointed dagger, metres from where uniformed police officers were stationed.

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When two grenades slid across the floor of a basement in Kibbutz Alumim, he lunged forward, picked up one and lobbed it to safety.

"One of them lunged for me and tried to grab my camera, which was strapped around my neck," she said.

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

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