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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.

3 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

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.

  • scamperscamper is a verb in the sense "to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way"
  • skitterskitter is a verb in the sense "to move quickly and lightly with short, skipping motions"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under scurry and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineMovement

to run with quick, short steps

When the lights switched on, the mice would scurry back to their hole.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

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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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.

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