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# prowl

«prowl» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move about quietly and secretly, often looking for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (prowls, prowled, prowling)

### meaning for a pupil

To prowl is to move about quietly and secretly, often looking for food or for something to attack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prowl/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hungry animal moves softly around, watching for prey; a thief or a cat may prowl about at night

### examples

- The hungry wolf prowled around the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prowl/#x1)
- A cat prowled along the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prowl/#x2)
- Who is prowling about in the dark garden? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prowl/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prowl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prowl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.