prowlverb [ I or T ]
uk/praʊl/us/praʊl/to move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard, such as an animal does when hunting:
There have been reports of a masked man prowling in the neighbourhood.
At night, adult scorpions prowl the desert for (= trying to catch) insects.
informal Unable to sleep, he prowled (= walked without purpose) (about/around) the hotel corridors.
prowlnoun
uk/praʊl/us/praʊl/be on the prowl
to be moving around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard:
There was a fox on the prowl earlier.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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