| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| (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 |
| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scathing | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: vituperative |
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| scathingly | (adverb) in a scathing and unsparing manner | Synonyms: unsparingly |
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| scatological | (adjective) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | - |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
| (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 |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scatterbrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatty |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds |
| scattered | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected |
| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| scatty | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted |