Synonyms of the word

lurk

• v. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
• v. To remain unobserved.
• v. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
• v. (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
• n. The act of lurking.

ambuscade

• n. (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
• n. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
• n. The body of troops lying in ambush.
• v. (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

ambush

• n. The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
• n. An attack launched from a concealed position.
• n. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.
• v. (transitive) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
• v. (transitive) To attack by ambush; to waylay.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

bushwhack

• v. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
• v. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country.
• v. to ambush.

conceal

• v. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

footle

• v. To waste time; to trifle.
• v. To talk nonsense.
• n. nonsense; foolishness.

hide

• v. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.
• v. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
• n. (countable) The skin of an animal.
• n. (obsolete or derogatory) The human skin.
• n. (uncountable, informal, usually US) One's own life or personal safety, especially when in peril.
• n. (countable) (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals…
• v. To beat with a whip made from hide.
• n. (historical) An English unit of land and tax assessment intended to support one household and notionally…

lallygag

• n. Horseplay, fooling around.
• n. A layabout, one who lallygags.
• v. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• v. (archaic, US) To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.

linger

• v. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not…
• v. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die…
• v. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic…

loaf

• n. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• n. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use…
• n. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
• v. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
• v. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread).

loiter

• v. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

lollygag

• v. (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
• n. (US) Silliness, nonsense.

lounge

• n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
• n. A domestic living room.
• n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
• n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
• n. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
• v. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

scupper

• n. (nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
• n. (architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
• v. (Britain) Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; compare scuttle.

skulk

• n. A group of foxes.
• n. One who skulks; a skulker.
• v. to conceal oneself; to hide.
• v. to sneak around, sneak about.
• v. to shirk; to avoid obligation.

tarry

• v. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
• v. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
• v. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
• v. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
• n. A sojourn.
• adj. Resembling tar.
• adj. Covered with tar.

wait

• v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now…
• v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
• v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
• v. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
• v. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
• v. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
• v. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.
• n. A delay.
• n. An ambush.
• n. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
• n. (in the plural, obsolete, Britain) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
• n. (in the plural, archaic, Britain) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially…

waylay

• v. (transitive) To lie in wait for and attack from ambush.
• v. (transitive) To accost or intercept unexpectedly.