Definition of Lurking

1. Verb. (present participle of lurk) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lurking

1. lurk [v] - See also: lurk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurking

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lurid
lurider
luridest
luridly
luridness
luridnesses
luring
luringly
lurk
lurked
lurker
lurkers
lurkest
lurketh
lurking (current term)
lurking place
lurkingly
lurkings
lurks
lurries
lurry
lurs
lurv
lurve
lurved
lurvely
lurves
lurving

Literary usage of Lurking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"lurking PLACES OF SIN —FACE TO FACE WITH CRIME- CELLAR HAUNTS AND ... ut Night — The Policeman's Story — Open Vice of Every Form—lurking Places of Criminals ..."

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"Enters at Pembroke College, Oxford—His College Life—The " Morbid Melancholy" lurking in his Constitution gains Strength—Translates Pope's Messiah into Latin ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... the chief hunter — His appearance and character — White wolves and antelopes — Buffalo bones — Sublette's deserted camp — lurking wolves. ..."

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