SCUD (scudded, scudding)

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Irregular inflected forms: scudded    , scudding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does scud mean? 

• SCUD (noun)
  The noun SCUD has 1 sense:

1. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

  Familiarity information: SCUD used as a noun is very rare.

• SCUD (verb)
  The verb SCUD has 2 senses:

1. run or move very quickly or hastily

2. run before a gale

  Familiarity information: SCUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scud; scudding

Hypernyms ("scud" is a kind of...):

hurrying; speed; speeding (changing location rapidly)

Derivation:

scud (run before a gale)

• SCUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scud    ... he / she / it scuds   
Past simple: scudded   
Past participle: scudded   
-ing form: scudding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run or move very quickly or hastily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot

Context example:

She dashed into the yard

Hypernyms (to "scud" is one way to...):

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

Verb group:

buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear (move quickly and violently)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scud"):

plunge (dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Run before a gale

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

rack; scud

Hypernyms (to "scud" is one way to...):

sail (travel on water propelled by wind)

Domain category:

navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

scud; scudding (the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale))

 Context examples 

The scud had banked over the moon, and it was now quite dark.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Beyond was a young fir plantation, and over its olive line there rose a white whirl which drifted swiftly, like a cloud-scud on a breezy day.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We would not get down our top-mast, but let all stand, because she scudded before the sea very well, and we knew that the top-mast being aloft, the ship was the wholesomer, and made better way through the sea, seeing we had sea-room.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A sudden scud of rain, driving full in her face, made it impossible for her to observe anything further, and fixed all her thoughts on the welfare of her new straw bonnet; and she was actually under the abbey walls, was springing, with Henry's assistance, from the carriage, was beneath the shelter of the old porch, and had even passed on to the hall, where her friend and the general were waiting to welcome her, without feeling one awful foreboding of future misery to herself, or one moment's suspicion of any past scenes of horror being acted within the solemn edifice.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was a brisk wind blowing, and the moon kept peeping through the rifts of the scud, so that our road was sometimes silver-clear, and sometimes so black that we found ourselves among the brambles and gorse-bushes which lined it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing—like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life; how sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)