0 past simple and past participle of lurk
1 to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen, especially because you are about to attack someone or do something wrong:
Yet we must remember that behind such publications lurked a less disciplined political culture.
Yet behind it lurked nothing less than a program for national renewal.
It lurked in strangers' faces, and their voices.
Such elfin mischiefmakers should surely have lurked and scurried about the stage.
The earthquake led him to discover that beneath a well organized life there lurked violence and injustice.
Even in those who did not complain, the infection always lurked.
The human figures reduced to type, shrank in size, and lurked the margins as guides to the monumental scale of nature's nation.
Moreover, political tests lurked in welfare provision as in other arenas under the regime's authority.
