(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
The ~ of a flower, leaf, or fruit is the thin part that joins it to the plant or tree.
A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long ~.
...corn ~s.
= stem
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you ~ a person or a wild animal, you follow them quietly in order to kill them, catch them, or observe them carefully.
He ~s his victims like a hunter after a deer.
= track
VERB: V n
3.
If someone ~s someone else, especially a famous person or a person they used to have a relationship with, they keep following them or contacting them in an annoying and frightening way.
Even after their divorce he continued to ~ and threaten her.
VERB: V n
~ing
The Home Secretary is considering a new law against ~ing.
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4.
If you ~ somewhere, you walk there in a stiff, proud, or angry way.
If his patience is tried at meetings he has been known to ~ out.
VERB: V adv/prep