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LURK

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lurk I. verb intranzitiv

1. a se ţine ascuns / în umbră, a sta la pândă, a pândi, a spiona;

to lurk for smb. a spiona / a pândi pe cineva;

lurking rocks stânci ascunse (sub apă).

2. (fig.) a trage cu urechea, a ciuli urechea, a pândi.

3. a pleca / a o şterge pe furiş, a se strecura, a se furişa;

to lurk about a se târî încoace şi-ncolo.

lurk II. substantiv

(sl.) escrocherie, şarlatanie; pungăşie, potlogărie, găinărie, coţcarie; cerşit cu hârtii false;

to be on the lurk a fi la pândă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Danger and hurt and death did not lurk everywhere about him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It was the severity of Holmes’s manner and the fact that he slipped a revolver into his pocket before leaving our rooms which impressed me with the feeling that tragedy might prove to lurk behind this curious train of events.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt the lurking of danger, unseen and unguessed.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Then he lay down with a contented grunt at the master's feet, observing all that went on, ever ready to spring to his feet and fight for life with the terrors he felt must lurk under the trap-roof of the dwelling.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Danger lurked in contacts.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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