stalk
verb/stɔːk/
/stɔːk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stalk | /stɔːk/ /stɔːk/ |
| he / she / it stalks | /stɔːks/ /stɔːks/ |
| past simple stalked | /stɔːkt/ /stɔːkt/ |
| past participle stalked | /stɔːkt/ /stɔːkt/ |
| -ing form stalking | /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/ /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] stalk (something/somebody) to move slowly and quietly towards an animal or a person, in order to kill, catch or harm it or them
- The lion was stalking a zebra.
- He stalked his victim as she walked home, before attacking and robbing her.
- [transitive] stalk somebody to illegally follow and watch somebody over a long period of time, in a way that is annoying or frightening
- She claimed that he had been stalking her over a period of three years.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to walk in an angry or proud way
- He stalked off without a word.
- The actress stalked out of a press conference when asked if she had a weight problem.
- Snatching up her bag, she stalked out of the room.
- [transitive, intransitive] stalk (something) to move through a place in an unpleasant or threatening way
- The gunmen stalked the building, looking for victims.
- (figurative) Fear stalks the streets of the city at night.
Word Originverb late Old English -stealcian (in bistealcian ‘walk cautiously or stealthily’), of Germanic origin; related to steal.
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