lurk
/lɝk/ verb C1- To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- To remain unobserved.
- To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
He/she/it lurks · Past lurked · Past participle lurked · -ing form lurking
Verb forms
- Base form
- lurk
- He/she/it
- lurks
- Past
- lurked
- Past participle
- lurked
- -ing form
- lurking
From the library
“You are quite sure that not a lurking doubt or suspicion lingers in your mind?”
All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years--each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.
But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.
Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
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