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cyberstalk en · VERB

Etymology

From cyber- + stalk.

Meanings

  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 occupying center stage as our ailing parents wait in the wings for our care ... while out of the spotlight, dangling unnoticed in the rigging, is the incredible shrinking spouse. 2008 February 10, Daniel Jones, “A Valley of Misery Between Peaks of Joy”, in New York Times:

Forms

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cyberstalked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cyberstalked Tense=Past lexicographic
cyberstalks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cyberstalking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic