| 单词 | prowl |
| 释义 | prowl (once / 1062 pages) 1vn 2v 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. The noun prowl means the act of moving as if to capture prey. You could take a prowl through the music shop and try to find your favorite vintage album. Prowl is also used in the phrase "on the prowl," which implies that the person doing the prowling is looking for a romantic partner. Your idea of a fun Saturday night might be staying home while your friends go on the prowl at the dance club. WORD FAMILYprowl: prowled, prowler, prowling, prowls+/prowler: prowlers USAGE EXAMPLESPurring jaguars prowled about our tents at night along with other unseen beasts. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) More than 100,000 cheetahs prowled Africa's arid grasslands little more than a century ago. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) I welcomed the year 2016 in Cuba, where my family and I and spent New Year’s Eve prowling the streets of Havana. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1v move about in or as if in a predatory manner The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town Hyper walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2n the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) 2Hyper walk, walking the act of traveling by foot v loiter about, with no apparent aim Syn|Hyper lurch footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry be about |
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