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🕵️ To follow secretly 🦌 To hunt quietly 🌱 A plant stem 🚶 To walk proudly 🌾 Crop remains 🦌 A quiet hunt
to stalk

to stalk

10 5.9
To walk with long proud steps because you are angry or upset
  • verb
  • /stɔk/
translation icon : caminar con paso airado
  • Gomez gets up and stalks toward the door, talking louder and louder.
  • stalk into the room
  • stalk across the stage
  • stalk away

And she's walking, stalking along in the, in the, in the nave of the Vatican.

Examples

  • "Yeah, sure," I lied before stalking off between the jeep and the empty lift.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • "Not now!" she muttered, jerking her hand out of his and stalking around the table to the door.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • After which, he would stalk off to his mysterious tower room.

    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

  • After a poor showing this morning, Ted Ray's stalking the grounds like a mad brute.

    The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

  • Storm walks away with a frightening calm and stalks straight inside toward the gym.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The door at the other end of the room slams open, and Tony stalks in, soaking wet.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Utah grabs the board out of Pappas' hands and stalks off across the beach.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • "So they do," Casimir said, setting his stein down beside the barrel and stalking away.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Morgen shook his head, stalking from one end of the captain's ready room to the other.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • After their argument, she decided to stalk away in a fit of anger, making her displeasure clear.

Synonyms

to stomp
vsto stalk
144 2.9

To walk heavily and loudly to show anger or determination

walks with long stiff steps showing pride or deliberate anger

Antonyms

to slouch
22 4.6

To sit, stand, or walk with the shoulders and head bent forward in a lazy way

shuffle
11 3.9

A way of walking by dragging the feet along the ground

Phrasal Verbs

to stalk its prey
6 6.6

To move quietly and carefully toward an animal to catch it by surprise

Compounds

corn stalk
  • US
2 1.6

A tall stem that holds the leaves and ears of a corn plant

flower stalk
1 3.3

An upright stem that grows from the ground and holds a flower above the leaves

hypophyseal stalk
  • Specialized
9.9

A thin tube connecting the pituitary gland under the brain to the hypothalamus above it

How Angry

to storm
70 4.4
to stomp
144 2.9
to stalk
10 5.9
to stride
16 2.7
to walk
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

stalk infinitive
stalked past
stalked past participle
stalking present participle
stalks third person singular

Etymology

The sense of stalk meaning to walk proudly likely comes from the image of a tall plant standing straight—imagine a person walking like a tall stalk with long steps. So to stalk past someone is to walk in a proud, stiff, or angry way.