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prowler

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prowl  (proul)
v. prowled, prowl·ing, prowls
v.tr.
To roam through stealthily, as in search of prey or plunder: prowled the alleys of the city after dark.
v.intr.
To rove furtively or with predatory intent: cats prowling through the neighborhood.
n.
The act or an instance of prowling.
Idiom:
on the prowl
Actively looking for something: salespeople on the prowl for better jobs.

[Middle English prollen, to move about.]

prowler n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.prowlerprowler - someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
interloper, intruder, trespasser - someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
Translations
prowler [ˈprauləʳ] nmerodeador(a) m/f
prowler [ˈprauləʳ] nrôdeur/euse
prowler [ˈprauləʳ] prowl nHerumtreiber m
prowler [ˈprauləʳ] ntipo sospetto (che s'aggira con l'intenzione di rubare, aggredire etc)


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A moon so little less than full that the eye could barely detect its slight tendency to become concave, shone serenely, creating a desirable combination of black shadows where the prowler might hide and great stretches of light in which the prowler might reveal his wickedness without disguise.
I did not dare follow him there beneath the moonlight, since it best suited my plans not to interrupt his--I wished him to reach his destination unsuspecting, that I might learn just where that destination lay and the business that awaited the night prowler there.
There were then in circulation, strange stories of a surly monk, a nocturnal prowler about the streets of Paris, and they recurred confusedly to his memory.
 
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