Past tense of lurk
regular verb
The past tense of lurk is lurked. The past participle is also lurked.
Forms of lurk
| Base form (V1) | lurk /lɜːk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | lurked |
| Past participle (V3) | lurked |
| Present participle | lurking |
| Third person singular | lurks |
Lurked in a sentence
- As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission.2015, Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
- His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.From the entry lugubrious
- All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, page 172. From the entry disused
- A smile I had learned to know elsewhere lurked at one corner of my paphian's mouth.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 9, in The Shadow of the Torturer. From the entry Paphian
- Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows.1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry elephantine
Meaning of lurk
- verb To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- verb To remain unobserved.
- verb To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
Questions about the past tense of lurk
- What is the past tense of lurk?
- The past tense of lurk is lurked.
- What is the past participle of lurk?
- The past participle of lurk is lurked.
- Is lurk a regular or irregular verb?
- Lurk is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lurk (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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