"skurry away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skurries away",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurrying away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurried away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurried away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883 November 20, J. R., “On Gettysburg’s Field. The Struggle for Round-Top. The Awful Conflict for the Priceless Prize Which Was Won by the Union Troops.”, in Paul Philippoteaux, Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, […], published [1885]",
          "text": "As we burst on them out of the smoke of their own fire, yelling like a pack of wolves in sight of their prey, they broke and scattered as a flock of partridges skurries away at the shot of the hunter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Lawrence L. Lynch, “A ‘’Mellican Lady’s’ Little Trick”, in Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives (The Great Detective Series), Chicago, Ill.: Alex. T. Loyd & Co., […], page 99",
          "text": "Uttering a startled: “Oh, my!” Millie skurries away, and the Celestial returns to the side of the detective, who seems just now to be playing a losing game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Fergus W[right] Hume, “Brian Receives a Letter”, in […] The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. […], London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, […], published [1888], page 161",
          "text": "On he galloped,[…]—past a silent shepherd’s hut, which stood near a wide creek, and then splashing through the cool water, which wound away through the dark plain like a thread of silver in the moonlight—then, again, the wide grassy plain dotted here and there with tall clumps of shadowy trees, and on either side he could see the sheep skurrying away like fantastic spectres—[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, Dick Doosenberry [pseudonym; Frank L. Chaney], “The Prairie Dog”, in Gleanings among the Kansas Sheaves, Kansas City, Mo.: Inter-State Publishing Company, page 223",
          "text": "Erect and alert all the summer day, / Near his dug-out the prairie dog sits; / If a stranger comes nigh he skurries away, / Nearly frightened out of his wits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Dated spelling of scurry away."
      ],
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        [
          "scurry away",
          "scurry away#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skurry away"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skurries away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurrying away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurried away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skurried away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883 November 20, J. R., “On Gettysburg’s Field. The Struggle for Round-Top. The Awful Conflict for the Priceless Prize Which Was Won by the Union Troops.”, in Paul Philippoteaux, Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, […], published [1885]",
          "text": "As we burst on them out of the smoke of their own fire, yelling like a pack of wolves in sight of their prey, they broke and scattered as a flock of partridges skurries away at the shot of the hunter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Lawrence L. Lynch, “A ‘’Mellican Lady’s’ Little Trick”, in Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives (The Great Detective Series), Chicago, Ill.: Alex. T. Loyd & Co., […], page 99",
          "text": "Uttering a startled: “Oh, my!” Millie skurries away, and the Celestial returns to the side of the detective, who seems just now to be playing a losing game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Fergus W[right] Hume, “Brian Receives a Letter”, in […] The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. […], London: The Hansom Cab Publishing Company, […], published [1888], page 161",
          "text": "On he galloped,[…]—past a silent shepherd’s hut, which stood near a wide creek, and then splashing through the cool water, which wound away through the dark plain like a thread of silver in the moonlight—then, again, the wide grassy plain dotted here and there with tall clumps of shadowy trees, and on either side he could see the sheep skurrying away like fantastic spectres—[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, Dick Doosenberry [pseudonym; Frank L. Chaney], “The Prairie Dog”, in Gleanings among the Kansas Sheaves, Kansas City, Mo.: Inter-State Publishing Company, page 223",
          "text": "Erect and alert all the summer day, / Near his dug-out the prairie dog sits; / If a stranger comes nigh he skurries away, / Nearly frightened out of his wits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dated spelling of scurry away."
      ],
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          "scurry away",
          "scurry away#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skurry away"
}