Synonyms of scuttles

scuttles

verb

present tense third-person singular of scuttle

as in scurries

to proceed or move quickly

mice scuttling across the barn floor to escape the cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scurries
• hurries
• rushes
• trots
• races
• speeds
• flies
• travels
• chases
• drives
• zips
• jumps
• scoots
• buzzes
• runs
• blows
• darts
• dashes
• steps
• rips
• hurls
• blasts
• zooms
• bowls
• rustles
• whirls
• rams
• tears
• hustles
• jogs
• hastens
• barrels
• shoots
• hurtles
• careens
• whisks
• hies
• blazes
• bustles
• bolts
• motors
• cracks (on)
• jets
• breezes
• courses
• humps
• nips
• careers
• rockets
• bundles
• belts
• pelts
• gallops
• beats it
• hares
• steps on it
• flits
• scampers
• bombs
• makes tracks
• hotfoots (it)
• cannonballs
• highballs
• shakes a leg
• gets a move on
• accelerates
• beetles
• sprints
• whizzes
• scuds
• overtakes
• stampedes
• streaks
• quickens
• outruns
• outstrips
• outpaces
• scuffles
• steps out
• arrows
• beelines
• catches up
• fast-forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawls
• drags
• pokes
• lingers
• creeps
• lags
• hangs (around or out)
• pokes
• loiters
• dawdles
• saunters
• shuffles
• ambles
• strolls
• tarries
• dallies
• lumbers
• plods
• decelerates
• slows (down or up)
• dillydallies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scuttles

The agreement follows years of uncertainty over the papers' future and scuttles a rival bid by the owner of the Daily Mail to buy the Telegraph titles. — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026

This scuttles a compromise, whereby paintings of Lee in his prewar blue Army uniform could remain while the portrait of Lee the secessionist and enslaver came down. — Time, 5 Sep. 2025

Besides the occasional random spider that scuttles indoors, some spiders can live in out-of-the-way spots in your home, such as along ceilings or in basements and behind clutter. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 June 2025