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What does scurry away mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word scurry away? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To run away, especially fearfully.
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When someone accidentally bumps him on the street, his ranting makes bystanders scurry away.
He also saw three or four masked men scurry away from the bank under cover of the smoke.
Pilot boats, ratlike, scurry away from these tankers.
Or when he steps off a train and into a crowd of photographers only to watch them scurry away when Ava Gardner emerges from an adjacent car.
It's then that I see Clint Eastwood scurry away unnoticed.
Whenever I saw him standing at the bank of elevators, I'd quickly turn and scurry away.

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