MEANING
To stay concealed or move furtively so as to avoid notice.
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Words that belong together
- skulk in shadows
- skulk behind a wall
On the page
A figure skulked behind the wall until the patrol passed.
She would not explain why he had been skulking near the locked room.
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Word forms
- Base
- skulk
- Third-person present
- skulks
- Past tense
- skulked
- Past participle
- skulked
- Present participle
- skulking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- skulk / skulks
- Present continuous
- am/is/are skulking
- Present perfect
- have/has skulked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been skulking
- Past
- skulked
- Past continuous
- was/were skulking
- Past perfect
- had skulked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been skulking
- Future
- will skulk
- Future continuous
- will be skulking
- Future perfect
- will have skulked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been skulking
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: skulk; skulks; skulked; skulked; skulking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: skulks.
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