moused

verb

past tense of mouse
as in lurked
to move about in a sly or secret manner a cat mousing along in the shadows of the garden

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moused
  1. lurked
  2. sneaked
  3. slipped
  4. slid
  5. crawled
  6. slunk
Verb
  • The city of Atlanta has jurisdiction over Hartsfield-Jackson, but the threat of a state takeover of the world’s busiest airport has lurked in the background of Georgia politics for years.
    — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • But concerns lurked beneath the surface of an otherwise positive report.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of lurked
Verb
  • Abdeen sneaked a few berries into his mouth, with one eye on his sister Essie, who stood nearby.
    — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Wilyer Abreu and Adley Rutschman answered with RBI hits before Gasper's first Red Sox homer sneaked around Pesky's Pole in the seventh and Abreu hit an RBI single.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of sneaked
Verb
  • Houston slipped to 64-64 and saw its two-game lead in the AL West drop to one as Texas beat Washington.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Deadlines slipped, morale dropped and the team stopped trusting her judgment.
    — Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of slipped
Verb
  • On Friday, the S & P 500 snapped a three-week advance , while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid roughly 2% on the week.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • During those periods, revenue slid as tax-paying workers lost jobs, and assistance payments jumped.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of slid
Verb
  • To compile as comprehensive a list as possible, Szydlowski crawled Instagram and Reddit for photos of people wearing different types of smart glasses.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • As the whole team fought for their lives, Yerman, one of the only Marines with relatively minor wounds, crawled over to Capers.
    — Ethan Rocke, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of crawled
Verb
  • The doubts that surrounded this team have slunk away, one by one, replaced by reasons for optimism.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • That’s how, last night, the best golfer most of us have ever seen slinked out of a Florida jail shortly before midnight and headed off into an uncertain future.
    — CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of slunk
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