SCURRY (scurried)

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Irregular inflected form: scurried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does scurry mean? 

• SCURRY (noun)
  The noun SCURRY has 1 sense:

1. rushing about hastily in an undignified way

  Familiarity information: SCURRY used as a noun is very rare.

• SCURRY (verb)
  The verb SCURRY has 1 sense:

1. to move about or proceed hurriedly

  Familiarity information: SCURRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCURRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rushing about hastily in an undignified way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scamper; scramble; scurry

Hypernyms ("scurry" is a kind of...):

haste; hurry; rush; rushing (the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner)

Derivation:

scurry (to move about or proceed hurriedly)

• SCURRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scurry    ... he / she / it scurries   
Past simple: scurried   
Past participle: scurried   
-ing form: scurrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To move about or proceed hurriedly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

scamper; scurry; scuttle; skitter

Context example:

so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground

Hypernyms (to "scurry" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scurry"):

crab (scurry sideways like a crab)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

scurry (rushing about hastily in an undignified way)

 Context examples 

Men were scurrying down the gang-plank to the shore.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had scurried around and nosed out Martin's family history, and procured a photograph of Higginbotham's Cash Store with Bernard Higginbotham himself standing out in front.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His eye happening to wander upon the maid, however, he instantly abandoned the mistress and danced off after the other, who scurried in confusion up one of the ladders, and dropped the heavy trap-door upon her pursuer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He whined pleadingly, and scurried playfully in and out of the underbrush.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the very midst of the scuffle, however, whilst Alleyne braced himself to feel the cold blade between his shoulders, there came a sudden scurry of hoofs, and the black man yelled with terror and ran for his life through the heather.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)