Synonyms of lurks

lurks

verb

present tense third-person singular of lurk

1

as in sneaks

to move about in a sly or secret manner

we caught a glimpse of someone lurking around the corner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sneaks
• slips
• crawls
• slinks
• steals
• slides
• creeps
• skulks
• tiptoes
• snakes
• shirks
• edges
• mouses
• pussyfoots
• mooches
• inches
• worms
• ghosts
• pads

2

as in hides

to remain out of sight

watch out for snakes lurking in the tall grass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hides
• lies
• reposes
• skulks
• lies low
• holes up
• sneaks
• slinks
• eludes
• evades
• sits tight
• avoids

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appears
• comes out
• shows up
• turns up
• materializes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lurks

Two people in Florida and five in Louisiana have died from vibrio vulnificus, which lurks in warm coastal waters and can enter the body through open wounds or from eating raw shellfish. — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

But amid the crooning local singers and walks down memory lane, trouble lurks. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 July 2026

But now, China lurks just offstage, preparing to bring the steel era’s industrial logic back into the story, using scale, subsidies and price pressure to test how durable today’s AI fortunes really are. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 July 2026

Those combinations are concentrated through the middle, where Messi generally lurks, with Argentina directing a smaller share of their passing towards the flanks than any other team. — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 20 July 2026

In Elliott’s Connecticut, the governor would send a busload of stern but compassionate counselors to protect workers hiding in their office where a gunman lurks. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026

As iconography that could unify through recognition that diversity lurks in everyone, the art was truly ahead of its time, and has become more necessary than ever. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Jamon has left the past behind, but danger still lurks. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 June 2026

At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that’s more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region that is about 2,000 times wider than our planet. — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 June 2026