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Thesaurus: lurk

To lie hid; to lie in wait.

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  1. v. i. To lie hid; to lie in wait.
  2. v. i. To keep out of sight.
  3. v. lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
  4. v. be about a place without any apparent purpose
  5. v. wait in hiding to attack
  6. v. to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence public
  7. 1. To lie hid; to lie in wait. Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. Spenser. Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11. 2. To keep out of sight. The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. Blackstone.
  8. v:100 v. lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner