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lurk English

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lurk Verb

— To lurk is to hide in a secret place to wait and to do bad or crime things then. — When you lurk, you read messages on forums and chats but you do not write any messages yourself.

lurk

— verb lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner — verb (= loiter, hang around) be about The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square Who is this man that is hanging around the department? — verb (= ambush) wait in hiding to attack

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lurk English » English

hide skulk lie in wait prowl ambush waylay sneak crouch ambuscade lie low lie in ambush bushwhack tarry steal spy slink scupper rove mill around mill about mess about lounge lollygag loiter loaf linger lie dormant lallygag hang around footle disappear creep watch for watch closely watch stalk snoop revise remain quiet observe kennel investigate inspect in hiding hover in the background hide out hidden haunt conceal camouflage

Conjugation lurk conjugation

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lurk · verb

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When people do a fair day's work, children can play where no dangers lurk.
Children can play where no dangers lurk.
Is it necessary to lurk in dark corners?
She was never one to lurk in alleyways.
I've word. 300 men of Spider's Web Castle lurk in the woods.
The events my spirit saw lurk as dire possibilities.
You never know what beasts lurk in the woods.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud. hatch out.
Let all the p-poisons that lurk in the mud. hatch out.
Without lament and without burial, he shall be left to the birds, who lurk already to gorge themselves.
Why do we lurk in this cellar when there is a whole house to loot?
I couldn't even lurk anymore.
Lurk, lurk.
I saw a fellow lurking about your steps and I, blimey, he won't lurk no more.
If you're able to lurk in here, you're able to call the cops as well.
Why don't you lurk at the entrance to the conference hall and when he arrives, you throw an inexpensive brick at his head?
Temptations lurk about you. - Well, hm! Some could even be dangerous.
Where strange primeval creatures defying evolution Lurk in the dark, impenetrable forests Cut off forever from the outside world.
Cogger lurk me to rob me, to force me.
Undefeated remnants of the enemy still lurk in dark corners!
Beneath these rough uniforms lurk hearts of purest gold.
Try to, uh, lurk. Okay?
As you're pretty, so be wise. Wolves may lurk in every guise.
Behind any of which could lurk a bloodthirsty assassin.
What foul schemes lurk in that woman's tortured mind.
It's my job to lurk. Have you forgotten.
Undefeated remnants of the enemy still lurk in dark corners! The serpents of treason await the moment to get at our throats!
But remember, the truth don't lurk around every street corner.
Where do you lurk?
Jussie would sort of lurk about in the doorway. half in and half out.
They settled in the caves before the goblins, and now they lurk in the dark crannies, snooping and spying and smelling about.
Or does behind it lurk the sneer of a sly curmudgeon?
Except now I know for sure the devil doesn't lurk in our attic, 'cause that's where I lurk.
Everyone you lurk, I'll lurk first.
Even now, humans lurk in our playgrounds, breezeways.

News and current affairs

So long as these ideas clash, violence will lurk.
There are among the many dangers that lurk here and many parties have less than a detached interest in this issue.
Whatever nasty surprises may lurk in the future, the global inflation environment is the tamest since the early 1960s.
Some even suggest that capitalism needs wars, that without them, recession would always lurk on the horizon.
In films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, shadowy enemies lurk in an hallucinatory darkness of fetid swamps and jungles.
And everyone knows that beneath the stability of the moment lurk explosive forces that can change the regime and devalue huge investments.
The second male behavior is a patricidal imperative that is perhaps the most shameful and atavistic of the primal impulses that still lurk in some archaic part of our brains.
Behind the new rhetoric lurk the same old neo-liberal policies of unthinking liberalization and privatization.
Below the surface lurk longstanding Turkish anxieties about Kurdish nationalism, and how this might threaten Turkish unity from across the borders of a newly-shattered Iraq.
The next war, terrorist attack, or failed peace initiative may lurk just around the corner.
But even there, risks lurk.
In the new world of more sophisticated financial markets, dangers lurk in hidden places.

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