| scab | (verb) form a scab | - |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
| scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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| scald | (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
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| (verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
| (verb) treat with boiling water | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
| scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| scallop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
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| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
| scalp | (verb) remove the scalp of | - |
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| (verb) sell illegally, as on the black market | - |
| scam | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| scamp | (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
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| scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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| scan | (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
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| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| scant | (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scar | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
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| scare | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
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| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| scarf | (verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
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| (verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
| (verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| scent | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, wind |
| (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, odourise |
| schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
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| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
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| schmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| schmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
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| schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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| school | (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
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| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
| schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
| scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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| sclaff | (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
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| (verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
| scoff | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, jeer |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: flout |
| scold | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, grumble |
| scollop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
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| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scallop |
| scoop | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, trump |
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| (verb) take out or up with or as if with a scoop | Synonyms: lift out, scoop out, scoop up, take up |
| scoot | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scud, shoot |
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| scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| score | (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
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| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| scorn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| scour | (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scourge | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scout | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
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| scowl | (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
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| scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scrag | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, garrotte |
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| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: choke |
| scram | (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, get |
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| scramble | (verb) make unintelligible | - |
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| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
| (verb) to move hurriedly | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scrap | (verb) make into scrap or refuse | - |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, trash |
| scrape | (verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: grate |
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| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scratch, scratch up |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape up, scratch |
| (verb) make by scraping | - |
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, kowtow |
| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scream | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: yell |
| (verb) make a loud, piercing sound | - |
| screech | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screen | (verb) examine methodically | - |
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| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| screw | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
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| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scribe | (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
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| scrimmage | (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
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| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| script | (verb) write a script for | - |
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| scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| scrub | (verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
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| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| scry | (verb) divine by gazing into crystals | - |
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| scud | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, shoot |
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| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: rack |
| scuff | (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
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| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| scum | (verb) remove the scum from | - |
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| scupper | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| scythe | (verb) cut with a scythe | - |
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