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stalk

2[stawk] ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to pursue or approach prey, quarry, etc., stealthily.
2. to walk with measured, stiff, or haughty strides: He was so angry he stalked away without saying goodbye.
3. to proceed in a steady, deliberate, or sinister manner: Famine stalked through the nation.
4. Obsolete. to walk or go stealthily along.
–verb (used with object)
5. to pursue (game, a person, etc.) stealthily.
6. to proceed through (an area) in search of prey or quarry: to stalk the woods for game.
7. to proceed or spread through in a steady or sinister manner: Disease stalked the land.
–noun
8. an act or course of stalking quarry, prey, or the like: We shot the mountain goat after a five-hour stalk.
9. a slow, stiff stride or gait.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME stalken (v.), repr. the base of OE bestealcian to move stealthily, stealcung stalking (ger.); akin to steal


stalk⋅a⋅ble, adjective
stalker, noun
stalk⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
stalk 2   (stôk)   
v.   stalked, stalk·ing, stalks

v.   intr.
  1. To walk with a stiff, haughty, or angry gait: stalked off in a huff.
  2. To move threateningly or menacingly.
  3. To track prey or quarry.
v.   tr.
  1. To pursue by tracking stealthily.
  2. To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement.
  3. To go through (an area) in pursuit of prey or quarry.

[Middle English stalken, from Old English -stealcian, to move stealthily (in bestealcian).]
stalk'er n.

Stalker

Stalk"er\, n. 1. One who stalks.

2. A kind of fishing net.
Language Translation for : stalker
Italian: (cacciatore all'agguato),
German: der, *die Pirschgänger(in),
Japanese: 追跡者
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