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Skitter Very Common

Skitter has 8 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

A skittering movement.

2

Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

Verb
1

to move about or proceed hurriedly

"so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

2

glide easily along a surface

3

cause to skip over a surface

"Skip a stone across the pond"

4

twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

5

To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.

6

To cause to have diarrhea.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
run glide throw twitch
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
crab
Rhyming Words
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