Lurk can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| lurk - lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | ||
| lurk - wait in hiding to attack | ||
| lurk - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" | ||
Noun |
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| lurk - The act of lurking. |
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| 1. | noun | Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. | |
| 2. | verb | 'Or Grecians in these timbers lurk confined, / or 'tis some engine of assault, designed / to breach the walls, and lay our houses bare, / and storm the town. Some mischief lies behind. / Trust not the horse, ye Teucrians. Whatso'er / this means, I fear the Greeks, for all the gifts they bear.' | |
| 3. | verb | In the depths of the human soul, dark feelings lurk. |
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| Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. | |
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| 'Or Grecians in these timbers lurk confined, / or 'tis some engine of assault, designed / to breach the walls, and lay our houses bare, / and storm the town. Some mischief lies behind. / Trust not the horse, ye Teucrians. Whatso'er / this means, I fear the Greeks, for all the gifts they bear.' | |
| In the depths of the human soul, dark feelings lurk. | |