skitter
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
to move about or proceed hurriedly
so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- scamper derivation
Sense 2 verb
glide easily along a surface
Types & categories
- glide hypernym
Sense 3 verb
cause to skip over a surface
Skip a stone across the pond
Types & categories
- throw hypernym
Sense 4 verb
twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water
Types & categories
- twitch hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scamper |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | run |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crab |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | glide |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | throw |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | twitch |