Definition of "scurrying" [scurrying]

• Present participle of scurry. (verb)

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• "There was a scurrying from the top deck and Phrynus saw a messenger leap off the side, white toga flying, a parchment held high before him."
• "Fish was up 3-0 in the first set when heavy rain sent more than 9,000 fans scurrying from the Family Circle Tennis Center."
• "Furlong began to feel very uncomfortable; the conversation ended; down came the servant, to whom Furlong was about to address himself, when the man said, "He would be with him in a minit," and vanished; a sort of reconnoitering party, one by one, then passed through the hall, eyeing the stranger very suspiciously, any of them to whom Furlong ventured a word scurrying off in double-quick time."