MOUSED Synonyms: 21 Similar Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

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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In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, on the morning of March 11, 2013, something lurked just below the surface of a young Afghan man, a boy, really.

— Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Like fossils of prehistoric life, the evidence of all these past relationships lurked in the debris of our Connecticut household.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of lurked

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The Avs killed off a penalty and appeared poised to get to the second intermission with a two-goal advantage, but Leafs forward Easton Cowan snuck one through Blackwood by the near post.

— Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2026
Gonzalez answered later in the third quarter, making a 52-yard field goal that snuck through the bottom right corner of the goalposts.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of sneaked

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An early 1990s recession clobbered Nasdaq, but home prices slipped only modestly, down 1% annually.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
The observation comes after the Nasdaq Composite slipped earlier this week, as losses in Nvidia led tech stocks lower.

— Liz Napolitano,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of slipped

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Coherent stock also slid roughly 4%, and Lumentum stock fell 5%.

— Kif Leswing,Annie Palmer,Kevin Breuninger,Samantha Subin,Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026
Florida doubled its lead just more than two minutes later when Carter Verhaeghe gathered a loose puck and slid a slick pass through the legs of Provorov to a trailing Eller, who buried the puck in the back of the net.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of slid

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This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of crawled

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