Skulking

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action of one who skulks.

    "You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]"

  2. 2
    evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of skulk form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"He had not swum more than a few yards before one of the skulking ground sharks had him fast by the upper part of the thigh."

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