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# scurry

«scurry» in Mova's school dictionary: **To run or move quickly with short, fast steps, like a mouse** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (scurry, scurries, scurried, scurrying); noun (a scurry — singular)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To run or move quickly with short, fast steps, like a mouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#m1)

2) To hurry because you are in a rush or afraid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#m2)

3) (noun) A hurried movement or the sound of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and nature lessons, mice, crabs, beetles and squirrels scurry. People scurry to get out of the rain. In writing, "scurry" is a vivid verb to use instead of "run". Phrases: scurry away, scurry about, scurry off, a scurry of feet.

### examples

- A mouse scurried across the kitchen floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x1)
- Crabs scurried sideways into the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x2)
- We scurried inside when it began to pour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x3)
- I heard the scurry of little feet in the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x4)
- The squirrel scurried up the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x5)
- Children scurried to their seats when the teacher came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x6)
- The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/#x7)

### note

Past form: scurried (y → ied). Third person: scurries. Similar: scamper, scuttle, dash.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scurry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scurry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.