Crossword clues for stalking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. st[ae]lcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.]
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To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
--Shak.Into the chamber he stalked him full still.
--Chaucer.[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed.
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To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . ``I must stalk,'' said he.
--Bacon.One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.
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To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
--Dryden.Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean.
--Addison.I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.
--Merivale.
Wiktionary
n. 1 hunt for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush 2 The crime of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury 3 The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking vb. (present participle of stalk English)
WordNet
n. a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush [syn: stalk, still hunt]
the act of following prey stealthily [syn: stalk]
adj. moving silently and deliberately; especially pursuing stealthily and persistently; "we watched the stalking tiger approach his prey"; "a stalking specter on the castle walls at midnight"
Wikipedia
Stalking is unwanted or obsessive attention by an individual or group towards another person. Stalking behaviors are related to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used, with some differing definitions, in psychiatry and psychology and also in some legal jurisdictions as a term for a criminal offense.
According to a 2002 report by the U.S. National Center for Victims of Crime, "virtually any unwanted contact between two people that directly or indirectly communicates a threat or places the victim in fear can be considered stalking," although in practice the legal standard is usually somewhat more strict.
Stalking is a fictional story about a young girl growing up in modern suburbia written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story is meant as a criticism of modern American society and the detrimental effects that it can have on youth. The main character in this story is stalking the “Invisible Adversary”, who is the personification of the neglect that she has experienced.
Usage examples of "stalking".
She laughed at him instead and turned to look for Benito Barranca, who came stalking through the ruins, red knife slashing, cutting down people trying to escape.
Down in the bird colony the brown and white and pink birds would be stalking in the shallows, or fighting or nesting, while up on the guanera the cormorants would be streaming back from their breakfast to deposit their milligramme of rent to the landlord who would no longer be collecting.
Off to the left, at the edge of a shallow among the bordering trees, a flock of ibis were stalking and stabbing in the plashy mud with their curved, dark-red bills.
Once there, he dropped until his belly fur nearly scraped the moss and advanced with the same caution he would have used in stalking a very wary pronghorn watch bull.
Still, I had no logical reason to believe that a psychopathic killer could be out here in California, possibly stalking Inspector Jamilla Hughes.
I let the mind roam away back over the vast geologic spaces, and sometimes fancy I see a dim image of him stalking across the terrace epoch of the quaternary period.
It was clear to Fleck almost immediately that Santero was also stalking.
Moving over to the bed, standing poised, then, above the man Scop had a vision and in that vision he descended upon Robert Kennedy with hands grown ferocious and enormous through need and tore his throat, beat him severely around the temples until he was dead and the need to do it was momentarily palpable, Scop could feel it stalking within him.
Here, where Black Michael and young Rupert of Hentzau had admired dead boars, drunk too much claret, boasted about their horses, their stalking prowess and their shooting eyes, and planned the abduction of village beauties, Stam had lived, gently pottering about, for ten years.
The lady had retired to her chamber, and the baron had passed a supperless and sleepless night, stalking about his apartments till an advanced hour of the morning, when hunger compelled him to summon into his presence the spoils of the buttery, which, being the intended array of an uneaten wedding feast, were more than usually abundant, and on which, when the knight and the friar entered, he was falling with desperate valour.
Phalse had found the saurial roaming the plane of Tarterus stalking demons.
Guilo and his warriors remained in the darkness, unglorified, stalking step by step downward toward the complex concealing themselves behind rocks and old snags.
The allosaurus was carefully stalking Skuld, squaring off against the giant to keep him away from the mortal troops.
In nightmares and in prophecy Apollonius had seen him disguising himself as a crippled beggar during the day, so that no one would take undue notice of him, then changing shape in the dusk and stalking the Ephesians by night, a great monster half-wolf, half-man, a lycanthrope who reveled in the killings.
Stokes had worked the Bichon case when Pam was alive and claiming Renard was stalking her.