scuttle

1. 1.

   to move about or proceed hurriedly

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

   Synonymsscurryscamperskitter

   Broaderrun

   Narrowercrab

Other forms of scuttle

plural

scuttles·

past tense

scuttled·

present participle

scuttling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scuttle

What does scuttle mean?

scuttle means "container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scuttle?

scuttle has 2 syllables: scut-tle. The stress falls on "scut". In IPA it is /ˈskʌtəl/.

What is another word for scuttle?

Close synonyms include coal scuttle, hatchway, opening, scurry, scamper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scuttle a common word?

scuttle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.