punge

Learned borrowing from Latin pungere.

• IPA^(key): /pʌnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ʌndʒ

punge (third-person singular simple present punges, present participle punging, simple past and past participle punged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce, prick, puncture.

• “punge, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

punge c

1. indefinite plural of pung

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -undʒe
• Hyphenation: pùn‧ge

punge

1. third-person singular present indicative of pungere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊŋ.ɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpun̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]

punge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pungō

punge

1. inflection of pungir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative