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stalking
 
Adjective stalking has 1 sense
  1. stalking - 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"
    Antonym:     leading (indirect, via following)
Noun stalking has 2 senses
  1. stalk, stalking, still hunt - a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush
    --1 is a kind of hunt, hunting
    --1 has particulars: deerstalking
    Derived form: verb stalk3
  2. stalk, stalking - the act of following prey stealthily
    --2 is a kind of pursuit, chase, following
Verb stalk has 3 senses
  1. stalk - walk stiffly
    --1 is one way to     walk
    Derived forms: noun stalk5, noun stalker1
    Sample sentence:
    The children stalk to the playground
  2. haunt, stalk - follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"
    --2 is one way to pursue, follow
    Derived form: noun stalk4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. stalk - go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for deer"
    --3 is one way to     pursue, follow
    Derived forms: noun stalk3, noun stalker3, noun stalker2, noun stalking1
    Sample sentence:
    The men stalk the area for animals
stalk stalk antonym stalk opposite stalkable stalked stalked puffball stalker stalking-horse stalking stalkingly stalkless stalklike stalks stall-fed stall stall bar stalled

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