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Scurry vs Fled - What's the difference?

scurry | fled |

As verbs the difference between scurry and fled

is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper while fled is (flee).

scurry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
  • * 1964 ,
  • Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

    Derived terms

    * scurry away * scurry off

    Anagrams

    *

    fled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flee)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    flee

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • Anagrams

    * * English irregular verbs ----