flit or flutter around

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• flit — vb Flit, flutter, flitter, flicker, hover suggest the movements of a bird or other flying or floating thing and mean to move in a manner like or reminiscent of such movements Flit implies a light and swift passing from place to place or point to… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• flutter — 1. verb 1) butterflies fluttered around Syn: flit, hover, flitter, dance 2) a tern was fluttering its wings Syn: flap, move up and down, beat, quiver, agitate, vibrate, whiffle 3) …   Thesaurus of popular words

• flit — Synonyms and related words: advance, aeroplane, air speed, airlift, airplane, auntie, ball the jack, balloon, barrel, bat around, be airborne, beat, beating, bi guy, bicker, bisexual, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, bull dyke, bum …   Moby Thesaurus

• flutter — Synonyms and related words: Bebung, addle, addle the wits, ado, agiotage, agitate, agitation, arbitrage, arrhythmia, asking price, ball up, barrage, bearish prices, beat, beat a ruffle, beat a tattoo, beating, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• flutter — verb 1) butterflies fluttered around Syn: flit, hover, dance 2) a tern was fluttering its wings Syn: flap, beat, quiver, agitate, vibrate 3) she fluttered her eyelashes …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• sail — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cruise, voyage; set sail; navigate, traverse. See navigation. n. canvas; moonsail, moon raker; jib, foresail, lateen, lug, mainsail, mizzen, spanker, topsail. See ship. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Means of …   English dictionary for students

• hurry — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, ado, agitation, air speed, bolt, brouhaha, bundle, bustle, buzz about, career, celerity, chase, cheer on, commotion, crowd, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dig out, dispatch, disquiet, disturbance, dither,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• eye — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 part of the body ADJECTIVE ▪ left, right ▪ amber, blue, brown, dark, golden, green, grey/gray …   Collocations dictionary

• whirl — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. spin[ning], gyration, turn; flutter, tizzy, confusion; pirouette. v. spin, twirl, turn, rotate, revolve, gyre, gyrate; dance, pirouette. See rotation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Rapid rotating motion] Syn …   English dictionary for students

• Frequentative — In grammar, a frequentative form of a word is one which indicates repeated action. The frequentative form can be considered a separate, but not completely independent word, called a frequentative. English frequentative is no longer productive,… …   Wikipedia

• pulse — Synonyms and related words: algae, alternate, arrhythmia, arsis, autophyte, bar beat, be here again, bean, beat, beating, bicker, bout, bracken, brown algae, circle, circuit, climber, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round… …   Moby Thesaurus