Lurk
[lɜːk] or [lɝk]
Definition
(verb.) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner.
Checked by Jerome--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.
(v. i.) To keep out of sight.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Lie hid, lie concealed, lie in wait.[2]. Skulk, keep out of sight, keep out of the way.
Editor: Lora
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hide, lie, skulk, abscond, lie_hid, lie_in_wait
ANT:Rise, spring, show, emerge, flash
Typed by Garrett
Definition
v.i. to lie in wait: to be concealed.—n. a swindle.—n. Lurk′er.—adj. Lurk′ing lying hid: keeping out of sight.—n. Lurk′ing-place a hiding-place.
Inputed by Katrina
Examples
- There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Scalded or Pasteurized milk saves the lives of scores of babies, because the germs of summer complaint which lurk in poor milk are killed and rendered harmless in the process of scalding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Whether ye lurk in honey-throated flowers industrious, or speed lightly through the measureless sky, do I summon ye hither, O sting-bearers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Bedouins lurk here, every where! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The best-looking among us will not look very well, lurking at a corner, and Bradley came out of that disadvantage very poorly indeed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well, now, let us see where this rat has been lurking. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was like something lurking in the darkness within him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I passed whole hours in going from house to house, listening whether I could detect some lurking sign of human existence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A man with a very odd manner indeed, and with a lurking look that was quite oppressive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If I could have hoped that Steerforth was there, I would have lurked about until he came out alone; but I knew he must have left long since. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Being something too soon in their arrival, they lurked at a corner, waiting for her to appear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The superciliousness that lurked in her manner told Venn that thus far he had utterly failed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Their assailants lurked everywhere. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet, a doubt lurks in my mind, Miss Pross, whether it is good for Doctor Manette to have that suppression always shut up within him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Which of us is there can tell how much vanity lurks in our warmest regard for others, and how selfish our love is? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Gertrude