Movement
Synonyms for scurry
Synonyms for scurry: scuttle, scamper and skitter. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for scurry
Interchangeable with scurry in this sense
Audited under scurry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one scurry carries in that sense.
- scuttleverb, in the sense "to run with quick, short steps"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name scurry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under scurry and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to run with quick, short steps
When the lights switched on, the mice would scurry back to their hole.
The true synonym
scuttle
Same sentence, swapped: When the lights switched on, the mice would scuttle back to their hole.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- saunter
- plod
- creep
Where scurry turns up in the game
scurry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play scurry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scurry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because movement is the company scurry keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scurry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.