lurk
There remains a lurking fear that things cannot be as perfect as they seem.
Violence is always a lurking possibility here.
There was a sense of lurking unease.
He was trying to protect the rabbits from a lurking bird of prey.
He lived in fear of a lurking assassin.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
be
here to stayidiom
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanence
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
unremittingly
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