Definition of lurking

"lurking" in the verb sense

1. lurk, skulk

lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner

2. loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

be about

"The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"

"Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

3. ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait

wait in hiding to attack

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Quotations for lurking

Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. [ Wilcox ]

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. [ Horace ]

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

lurking in Scrabble®

The word lurking is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters lurking:

LURKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
LURKING
(101 = 51 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lurking

LURKING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lurking

LURKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
LURKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
LURKING
(98 = 48 + 50)
LURKING
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LURKING
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lurking in Words With Friends™

The word lurking is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lurking:

LURKING
(125 = 90 + 35)
LURKING
(125 = 90 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

lurking

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word lurking

LURKING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lurking

LURKING
(125 = 90 + 35)
LURKING
(125 = 90 + 35)
LURKING
(113 = 78 + 35)
LURKING
(113 = 78 + 35)
LURKING
(107 = 72 + 35)
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GUNK
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KNURL
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KING
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KILN
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LINK
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GUNK
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Words within the letters of lurking

2 letter words in lurking (3 words)

3 letter words in lurking (13 words)

4 letter words in lurking (15 words)

5 letter words in lurking (3 words)

6 letter words in lurking (2 words)

7 letter words in lurking (1 word)

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Words containing the sequence lurking

Words that start with lurking (1 word)

Words with lurking in them (1 word)

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