stalked

verb

past tense of stalk
1
as in chased
to seek out (game) for food or sport lions stalking gazelles on the plains

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2
as in strutted
to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements the irate customer stalked off in a huff

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Recent Examples of stalked Hooper’s film, which finds teens stalked through a carnival by a monstrous lurker, is not very good at all. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2026 Other than the werewolf that has stalked it for nearly a century. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026 The group then stalked the man and his parents for two days, officials said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026 The Swedish native’s two-and-a-half-minute film starred his wife, Lotta Losten, as a woman stalked by a mysterious figure when the lights go out. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026 The first episode started with poor Struan Loy getting stalked and later torched alive by a pair of Russian assassins as relentless and seemingly unkillable as Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 Director Robert Eggers delivers a taut, terrifying period piece with this tale of a 17th-century New England family expelled from their village and stalked by a witch — a movie that also put the then-fledgling studio A24 on the map. — David Faris, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026 In the 1980s, French intelligence stalked American technology firms. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 Prosecutors told the court that Kosowski stalked Cozzi at his house and at the law firm for months before the murder, Bay News 9 reported. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalked
  1. chased
  2. strutted
  3. hunted
  4. strode
  5. pranced
  6. sashayed
  7. swaggered
Verb
  • Last year, Rich County Sheriff Dale Stacey said detectives had chased reports of sightings across multiple states and urged the public to preserve any photographic or timestamped evidence.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • An officer chased Burch into an apartment complex near Eagle Springs Way and used a Taser on him, police said.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of chased
Verb
  • Dressed in brown textured leopard print pants and a yellow tank top, Lima strutted down the catwalk donning heavy silver jewelry, including an oversize chainlink necklace and a bracketing cuff on each earlobe.
    — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The door opened and the powder-room pioneer strutted out, two thumbs up in an initial review for a new piece of public infrastructure that could soon come to neighborhoods across the city.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of strutted
Verb
  • Every man and boy dreamed of killing that old boar, and plenty of work was forgotten by the men who hunted him.
    — Jack Wingate as told to John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Before the discovery, scientists had assumed the cat hunted pronghorn on open plains.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of hunted
Verb
  • The Bahamian police and armed forces strode out to greet Charles in lockstep, some wearing pith helmets.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But then James Bond strode into the pages of popular culture, dapper and deft.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of strode
Verb
  • As Darrell Royal, the old football coach at Texas once said … one of his players pranced into the end zone and started beating on his own chest.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
Definition of pranced
Verb
  • At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Dancing With the Stars pro Gleb Savchenko and troupe member Marcquet Hill sashayed their way onto Tuesday's episode of the long-running CBS soap as a couple of hip-thrusting bachelorette party dancers.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
Definition of sashayed
Verb
  • Jeezy, Teyana Taylor, Jermaine Dupri, Usher, Swizz Beatz, Rihanna (who briefly out-swaggered Jay), Pharrell, and Beyoncé, backed by the Mayyas, a Lebanese dance group.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In San Ángel, those men swaggered around town, smoking marijuana and blasting banda music from their flashy trucks.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of swaggered

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“Stalked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalked. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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