lurk
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
Types & categories
- hide hypernym
Related & opposite
- lurker derivation
Sense 2 verb
be about
The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
wait in hiding to attack
Types & categories
- wait hypernym
Related & opposite
- ambush derivation
- ambusher derivation
- bushwhacker derivation
- lurker derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lurker |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hide |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lounger |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | loiterer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | prowl |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ambush |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ambusher |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bushwhacker |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lurker |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | wait |