Noun

• S: (n) prowl (prowl%1:04:00::) (the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner))

Verb

• S: (v) prowl (prowl%2:38:00::) (move about in or as if in a predatory manner) "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"
• S: (v) prowl (prowl%2:42:00::), lurch (lurch%2:42:00::) (loiter about, with no apparent aim)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) loiter (loiter%2:42:00::), lounge (lounge%2:42:00::), footle (footle%2:42:00::), lollygag (lollygag%2:42:00::), loaf (loaf%2:42:00::), lallygag (lallygag%2:42:00::), hang around (hang_around%2:42:00::), mess about (mess_about%2:42:00::), tarry (tarry%2:42:00::), linger (linger%2:42:00::), lurk (lurk%2:42:00::), mill about (mill_about%2:42:00::), mill around (mill_around%2:42:00::) (be about) "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
• S: (v) be (be%2:42:03::) (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)) "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame