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scurries

scurries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scurry.

Meaning of scurry

Verb

scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)

  1. To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
    • Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian
    Synonyms:
    scamper

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Phrases with scurries

Questions about scurries

What is scurries the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scurries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scurry.

Words near scurries in the dictionary

  1. scurrids
  2. scurried
  3. scurried away
  4. scurrier
  5. scurriers
  6. scurries
  7. scurries away
  8. scurril
  9. scurrile
  10. scurrilist
  11. scurrilists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scurries (page history and authors); scurry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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