prowling

[prowl]

If you move stealthily like you're looking for something to prey on then you prowl. Your cat might prowl around the room and pounce on your feet, which is cute if you're awake, but annoying when you're asleep.

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Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Prowl

a.
Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.


Prowling

Prowl"ing, a. Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.

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Usage Examples

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

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