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Stalking vs Lurking - What's the difference?

stalking | lurking |

As verbs the difference between stalking and lurking

is that stalking is present participle of lang=en while lurking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between stalking and lurking

is that stalking is hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush while lurking is the act of one who lurks.

stalking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia stalking) (en noun)
  • Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush
  • The crime of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury
  • The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking

    • lurking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who lurks.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
    • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings , and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.