skittered

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English

Definitions

verb

To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.“I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.”
To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.

verb

To cause to have diarrhea.
To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

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Synonyms

scamper scurry skip skite skim scuttle scurried scampered scurries skittery flittered scurrying skittishly skurry scuttling scampering skirted

Rhymes

uttered muttered tittered sputtered fluttered cluttered shuttered uncluttered buttered guttered

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