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skurrying away

skurrying away is the present participle and gerund of skurry away.

Meaning of skurry away

Verb

skurry away (third-person singular simple present skurries away, present participle skurrying away, simple past and past participle skurried away)

  1. Dated spelling of scurry away.
    • The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 18

Questions about skurrying away

What is skurrying away the present participle and gerund of?
Skurrying away is the present participle and gerund of skurry away.

Words near skurrying away in the dictionary

  1. skurries
  2. skurries away
  3. skurry
  4. skurry away
  5. skurrying
  6. skurrying away
  7. SKUs
  8. Skuse
  9. Skuses
  10. Skutari
  11. skutch

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