579 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ lˈɜːk], [ lˈɜːk], [ l_ˈɜː_k]

Similar words for lurk:

• other relevant words (noun)
• ambush (verb)
• conceal (verb)
• creep (verb)
• hide; move stealthily (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• prowl (verb)
• pussyfoot (verb)
• shirk (verb)
• slink/slither (verb)
• sneak (verb)
• stative (verb)
• waylay (verb)
• other synonyms
• ambush
• conceal
• other relevant words
• prowl
• pussyfoot
• waylay
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for lurk

Hyponyms for lurk

Synonyms for Lurk:

• n.

  •
  • procrastinate,
  • wait around,
  • temporize,
  • hold off,
  • put off,
  • play for time,
  • conceal oneself,
  • sit on,
  • hesitate,
  • delay.
  •
  • move,
  • glide,
  • be heading/headed for something,
  • lie ahead/before/in store,
  • mouse,
  • waiting to happen.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • cloak,
  • lounge,
  • camouflage,
  • be latent,
  • shroud,
  • stow away,
  • disguise,
  • disguised,
  • lie dormant,
  • doggo,
  • dress up,
  • ground,
  • footle,
  • mask,
  • slide,
  • smokescreen,
  • lie,
  • fig leaf,
  • lie low,
  • skulk,
  • enshroud,
  • hang around,
  • multitude,
  • ambuscade,
  • underlie,
  • cover,
  • sidle,
  • illusion,
  • loiter,
  • nightwalk,
  • pussyfoot,
  • smolder,
  • palm,
  • couch,
  • hole up (somewhere),
  • screen,
  • tuck,
  • incognito,
  • hibernate,
  • hole,
  • masked,
  • stalk,
  • harbour,
  • lie beneath,
  • secrete,
  • undercover,
  • veneer,
  • tiptoe,
  • dissemble,
  • lollygag,
  • HIT,
  • stash,
  • lie in wait,
  • bury,
  • linger,
  • loaf,
  • scupper,
  • mill around,
  • paper,
  • drown,
  • shut,
  • make no sign,
  • infiltration,
  • hiding,
  • lie up,
  • mill about,
  • slip,
  • camo,
  • ambush,
  • lie hid,
  • patina,
  • blind,
  • veil,
  • lallygag,
  • hidden,
  • hide out,
  • stow,
  • concealment,
  • submerge,
  • tarry,
  • snake,
  • gumshoe,
  • bushwhack,
  • black,
  • shadow,
  • obscure,
  • dress,
  • steal,
  • escape notice,
  • lay wait,
  • mess about.

• v.

  • ambush (verb)
  • sur rounding,
  • de-coyed,
  • sur-prise,
  • de coy,
  • sur-prises,
  • boxed in,
  • sur prise,
  • de coyed,
  • sur-prised,
  • japping,
  • laid for,
  • de-coy,
  • lays for,
  • de coys,
  • sur rounded,
  • sur-prising,
  • sur prising,
  • sur prises,
  • setting trap,
  • laying for,
  • de coying,
  • sets trap,
  • sur-rounded,
  • boxing in,
  • de-coying,
  • sur-rounding,
  • de-coys,
  • japped.
  • conceal (verb)
  • puts in hole,
  • tucking away,
  • tucks away,
  • stayed out sight,
  • lied low,
  • staying out sight,
  • put in hole,
  • keeping dark,
  • staid out sight,
  • putting in hole,
  • staying out of sight,
  • putting a hole,
  • put a hole,
  • staid out of sight,
  • stays out sight,
  • keeping secret,
  • stayed out of sight,
  • putting in a hole,
  • puts in a hole,
  • lies low,
  • putting hole,
  • keeps secret,
  • stay out sight,
  • keeps dark,
  • kept dark,
  • puts hole,
  • puts a hole,
  • put hole,
  • stays out of sight.
  • creep (verb)
  • approaches unnoticed,
  • crawls on fours,
  • in sinuates,
  • crawl all fours,
  • crawling fours,
  • gumshoed,
  • crawling all fours,
  • in-sinuated,
  • in-sinuating,
  • crawled all fours,
  • crawls all fours,
  • crawl on fours,
  • crawling on all fours,
  • in sinuate,
  • approached unnoticed,
  • approaching unnoticed,
  • in-sinuate,
  • crawled fours,
  • crawled on fours,
  • in-sinuates,
  • crawls fours,
  • in sinuated,
  • crawl fours,
  • in sinuating,
  • crawls on all fours,
  • crawled on all fours,
  • crawling on fours.
  • hide; move stealthily (verb)
  • go furtively,
  • snoop,
  • stay hidden,
  • crouch.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • be,
  • wait,
  • hide.
  • prowl (verb)
  • nosed around,
  • nosing around,
  • noses around.
  • pussyfoot (verb)
  • playing close vest,
  • played close vest,
  • sitting on fence,
  • watch one step,
  • sate fence,
  • play it close vest,
  • ducked issues,
  • play close to vest,
  • hem haw,
  • play close the vest,
  • ducks the issues,
  • beats around bush,
  • ducks issues,
  • playing close to vest,
  • sitting on the fence,
  • played it close vest,
  • sat on fence,
  • watches one step,
  • duck issues,
  • plays close to vest,
  • plays it close the vest,
  • sit fence,
  • played it close to the vest,
  • playing it close to the vest,
  • was noncommittal,
  • watched one's step,
  • wert noncommittal,
  • played close the vest,
  • sitting the fence,
  • playing close the vest,
  • watched step,
  • beats around the bush,
  • sate on the fence,
  • watches step,
  • watching step,
  • plays close to the vest,
  • wast noncommittal,
  • am noncommittal,
  • played it close the vest,
  • played close to the vest,
  • being noncommittal,
  • watches one's step,
  • treading warily,
  • sat the fence,
  • sitting fence,
  • sit the fence,
  • watch step,
  • plays close the vest,
  • is noncommittal,
  • play close to the vest,
  • playing it close vest,
  • plays it close to vest,
  • treads warily,
  • played close to vest,
  • were noncommittal,
  • sits the fence,
  • sate the fence,
  • ducked the issues,
  • plays close vest,
  • tergiversing,
  • plays it close vest,
  • ducking the issues,
  • plays it close to the vest,
  • trod warily,
  • playing it close to vest,
  • playing it close the vest,
  • watched ones step,
  • sat on the fence,
  • watching one step,
  • watching ones step,
  • sits on the fence,
  • play close vest,
  • play it close the vest,
  • watches ones step,
  • ducking issues,
  • art noncommittal,
  • tergiversed,
  • sits on fence,
  • sits fence,
  • beating around bush,
  • sate on fence,
  • watched one step,
  • tergiverses,
  • played it close to vest,
  • playing close to the vest,
  • watch ones step,
  • play it close to vest,
  • sat fence.
  • shirk (verb)
  • lay down on job,
  • lying down on job,
  • by pass,
  • lied down job,
  • lie down job,
  • lies down job,
  • by passed,
  • lied down on job,
  • gets around,
  • by passes,
  • gat around,
  • sloughing off,
  • lies down on job,
  • lying down job,
  • gotten around,
  • sloughed off,
  • lay down job,
  • by passing,
  • shuffling off,
  • shuffled off,
  • shuffles off.
  • slink/slither (verb)
  • passed quietly,
  • goes stealthily,
  • passes quietly,
  • passing quietly,
  • going stealthily,
  • went stealthily.
  • sneak (verb)
  • snooked,
  • de-lude,
  • de lude,
  • moved secretly,
  • snooking,
  • moving secretly,
  • de ludes,
  • de-ludes,
  • moves secretly.
  • stative (verb)
  • lurk.
  • waylay (verb)
  • pounced on,
  • set up on,
  • lies wait,
  • lie wait,
  • setting up on,
  • swoops down on,
  • swooped down on,
  • lies in wait,
  • lied in wait,
  • sets up on,
  • lying wait,
  • pounces on,
  • pouncing on,
  • lied wait,
  • swooping down on,
  • setting upon.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lie ahead,
  • threaten.
  •
  • await,
  • loom,
  • call for.
  • ambush
  • JAPS,
  • boxes in,
  • ensnared,
  • Entrapped,
  • lay for,
  • set trap,
  • dry gulch,
  • jap,
  • hem in,
  • box in.
  • conceal
  • tuck away,
  • hole up,
  • enshrouded,
  • covered up,
  • tucked away,
  • stay out of sight,
  • kept secret,
  • cover up,
  • lying low,
  • covering up,
  • ensconce,
  • keep secret,
  • masquerade,
  • Secreted,
  • keep dark,
  • covers up,
  • lay low,
  • put in a hole.
  • Other relevant words:
  • Scrabbling,
  • creep,
  • get around,
  • by-passed,
  • slough off,
  • conceal,
  • slying,
  • prowl,
  • scrabbles,
  • Bumming,
  • SLIES,
  • lie down on job,
  • Inching,
  • Slicking,
  • snook,
  • shirk,
  • snooks,
  • approach unnoticed,
  • by-passing,
  • Scrabbled,
  • go stealthily,
  • shuffle off,
  • slinks,
  • Bummed,
  • Slank,
  • Inched,
  • goldbrick,
  • Snaking,
  • getting around,
  • writhing,
  • Snaked,
  • grovelling,
  • WORMS,
  • scrabble,
  • Tiptoes,
  • pass quietly,
  • slied,
  • Spiriting,
  • Worming,
  • crawl on all fours,
  • sneak,
  • snuck,
  • Wormed,
  • move secretly,
  • By-pass,
  • worm,
  • slicks,
  • slink,
  • sloughs off,
  • tiptoeing,
  • slicked,
  • waylay,
  • gumshoeing,
  • tiptoed,
  • by-passes.
  • prowl
  • Strolled,
  • scavenge,
  • scavenged,
  • scavenges,
  • scavenging,
  • nose around.
  • pussyfoot
  • tergiverse,
  • beat around bush,
  • sit on the fence,
  • watch one's step,
  • beating around the bush,
  • watching one's step,
  • tread warily,
  • play it close to the vest,
  • beat around the bush,
  • duck the issues,
  • be noncommittal,
  • sit on fence.
  • waylay
  • sets upon,
  • pounce on,
  • swoop down on,
  • set upon.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • gammon,
  • imposture,
  • misrepresentation,
  • lurker,
  • Hove,
  • corruption,
  • lounge around,
  • mooch,
  • trick,
  • hover,
  • retire from sight,
  • retired,
  • potential,
  • exhibit,
  • mill,
  • droop,
  • likely,
  • entrap,
  • recondite,
  • expose,
  • fraud,
  • hallucination,
  • forgery,
  • duplicity,
  • asleep,
  • artifice,
  • imperil,
  • falsity,
  • detect,
  • latency,
  • imposition,
  • sly,
  • basic,
  • dodge,
  • go underground,
  • lurking,
  • smoulder,
  • endanger,
  • lookout,
  • take cover,
  • bum around,
  • hideout,
  • untruth,
  • lurking place,
  • lie doggo,
  • ulterior,
  • implicit,
  • fake,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • cheat,
  • jugglery,
  • craft,
  • knavery,
  • surreptitious,
  • frig around,
  • inner,
  • underlying,
  • betray,
  • deceive,
  • lurch,
  • be about,
  • silent,
  • lying in wait,
  • dare,
  • lay in wait,
  • trap,
  • concealed,
  • ploy,
  • sneaky,
  • cower,
  • loll,
  • cryptic,
  • Delitescence,
  • invisible,
  • secretive,
  • fundamental,
  • proceed slowly,
  • go under,
  • bum,
  • fraudulence,
  • lie fallow,
  • dawdle,
  • furtive,
  • falsification,
  • disclose,
  • delusion,
  • falsifying,
  • hoax,
  • covert,
  • torpid,
  • Arse About,
  • slither,
  • be hidden,
  • wile,
  • intercept,
  • seclude oneself,
  • falsehood,
  • peril,
  • loll around,
  • secret,
  • dormant,
  • still hunt,
  • go into hiding,
  • sham,
  • Latibulize,
  • suppress,
  • lounge about,
  • masquerade as,
  • bum about,
  • squirrel away,
  • stealthy,
  • clandestine,
  • go in,
  • eavesdrop,
  • guile,
  • ensnare,
  • deceit,
  • pad,
  • deception,
  • latent,
  • lair,
  • cache,
  • subterranean,
  • inactive,
  • underground,
  • devour,
  • creek.

Homophones for Lurk:

• larus, lurch, layer cake, Lerch, laurus, laurasia, lorica, lowercase, low-rise, larousse, lorca, lyrurus, largesse, lower jaw, leresis, large, larix, largess, lauraceae, lark, largo, lyric, larch, largish.

Hyponym for Lurk:

• v.

  • stative
    hide, conceal.