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to scurry
01
to move quickly and with small, rapid steps, often in a hurried or nervous manner
Intransitive: to scurry | to scurry somewhere
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
scurry
3rd person singular
scurries
Present participle
scurrying
Past simple
scurried
Past participle
scurried
Examples
Startled by the sudden noise, the mice scurried into their nests in the corner.
Scurry
01
a short and quick movement, involving small steps or rapid motion
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
scurries
Examples
There was a sudden scurry of mice when the lights came on.
Lexical Tree
scurrying
scurry
