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cyberstalk

cyberstalk verb: to stalk (a person) by means of computer networks.

Verb

cyberstalk (third-person singular simple present cyberstalks, present participle cyberstalking, simple past and past participle cyberstalked)

  1. (transitive) To stalk (a person) by means of computer networks.
    • But when it comes to tales from my fellow midlifers, I most often find myself reading about regret and claustrophobia, fantasies surreptitiously indulged, old flames cyberstalked (including the agony of whether to hit “send” on that “Hey, you won’t believe who this is!” e-mail message), children...2008 February 10, Daniel Jones, “A Valley of Misery Between Peaks of Joy”, in New York Times

Forms of cyberstalk

third-person singular presentcyberstalks
present participlecyberstalking
past participlecyberstalked
pastcyberstalked

Origin of cyberstalk

From cyber- + stalk.

Questions about cyberstalk

What does cyberstalk mean?
Cyberstalk means to stalk (a person) by means of computer networks.
What part of speech is cyberstalk?
Cyberstalk is a verb.
What is the past tense of cyberstalk?
The past tense of cyberstalk is cyberstalked.

Words near cyberstalk in the dictionary

  1. cybersquats
  2. cybersquatted
  3. cybersquatter
  4. cybersquatters
  5. cybersquatting
  6. cyberstalk
  7. cyberstalked
  8. cyberstalker
  9. cyberstalkers
  10. cyberstalking
  11. cyberstalkings

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