aprowl

aprowl
/euh prowl"/, adj.
moving about in stealthy search; covertly stalking or hunting; prowling (usually used predicatively): The sudden silence in the jungle gave warning that some huge carnivore was aprowl.
[A-1 + PROWL]

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