stalkerstalk‧er /ˈstɔːkə $ ˈstɒːkər/ noun [countable] 
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Thesaurus- The stalker's reappearance has led to increased security around the actress.
- Women's groups are demanding that Congress toughen the law against stalkers.
- A good stalker only singles out weak animals from a herd, or those that are past their best.
- Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands.
- Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day.
- The act was intended to protect the victims of stalkers, but it does not spell out what behaviour amounts to harassment.
- Thus the stalker feeds his need, becoming central in the life of some one who should be a stranger to him.
- Victims of stalkers often find themselves thinking about nothing else.
Longman Language Activatorto closely follow a person or animal in order to watch them► follow
someone who follows and watches another person over a period of time in a way that is very annoying or threatening · He followed her home to find out where she lived.· Did you make sure you weren't followed on the way over here?· She complained to the police officer that she was being followed by two strangers.
► tail informal if someone such as a police officer tails someone, they secretly follow that person to find out where they are going or what they are doing: · That police car has been tailing us for the last 5 miles.· A group of photographers tailed the couple all over London.
► be/sit on somebody's tail to follow close behind someone, especially in order to watch or catch them: · A police car was on their tail within seconds of the alarm going off.· We sat on their tail for about an hour until we lost them in traffic.
► shadow to follow someone or something very closely in order to watch all their movements without them realizing that they are being followed: · I want you to shadow him for the next three days and find out who he hangs out with.· Consumed with jealousy, he shadowed her for three days, hoping to catch her with her lover.
► track/trail to follow a person or animal closely, especially by looking for signs showing that they have gone in a particular direction: · Undercover agents have been tracking him for weeks.· It would be impossible to trail anyone across this type of ground.track/trail somebody to something: · The police trailed the gang to their hideout.· Dogs are used to track the wolves to their lair in the forest.
► hound to keep following someone and asking them questions about their activities, personal problems etc, in a way that is annoying or threatening: · After the court case she was hounded relentlessly by the press.· The couple found themselves hounded by photographers as they left the church.
► stalk to follow a person or animal quietly in order to catch, injure, kill them: · Polar bears stalk seals that are resting on the ice.· The killer would stalk his victim, overpower her and then brutally murder her.
► stalker a criminal or mentally ill person who continuously follows and watches someone in a threatening way, especially someone famous or someone they are attracted to: · Women's groups are demanding that Congress toughen the law against stalkers.· The stalker's reappearance has led to increased security around the actress.
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