cyberstalking
cyberstalking is the present participle and gerund of cyberstalk.
Meaning of cyberstalk
Verb
cyberstalk (third-person singular simple present cyberstalks, present participle cyberstalking, simple past and past participle cyberstalked)
- 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
Noun
cyberstalking (usually uncountable, plural cyberstalkings)
- The use of electronic communications or tracking technologies to stalk or harass another person.
- Victims of cyberstalking experience increased psychological distress compared to stalking victims in general.2007, Debra A. Pinals, Stalking : Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches, →ISBN, page 219
Forms of cyberstalking
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Questions about cyberstalking
- What does cyberstalking mean?
- Cyberstalking means the use of electronic communications or tracking technologies to stalk or harass another person.
- What is cyberstalking the present participle and gerund of?
- Cyberstalking is the present participle and gerund of cyberstalk.
- What part of speech is cyberstalking?
- Cyberstalking is a noun.
- What is the plural of cyberstalking?
- The plural of cyberstalking is cyberstalkings.
Words near cyberstalking in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyberstalking (page history and authors); cyberstalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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