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scud
1[ skuhd ]
verb (used without object)
- to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- Nautical. to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
- Archery. (of an arrow) to fly too high and wide of the mark.
noun
- the act of scudding.
- clouds, spray, or mist driven by the wind; a driving shower or gust of wind.
- low-drifting clouds appearing beneath a cloud from which precipitation is falling.
scud
2[ skuhd ]
verb (used with object)
- to cleanse (a trimmed and roughly depilated skin or hide) of remaining hairs or dirt.
noun
- the hairs or dirt removed by scudding.
Scud
3[ skuhd ]
noun
- a surface-to-surface missile, especially one deployed on a mobile launcher.
scud
1/ skʌd /
verb
- intr (esp of clouds) to move along swiftly and smoothly
- intr nautical to run before a gale
- tr to hit; slap
noun
- the act of scudding
- meteorol
- a formation of low fractostratus clouds driven by a strong wind beneath rain-bearing clouds
- a sudden shower or gust of wind
- a slap
Scud
2/ skʌd /
noun
- informal.a Soviet-made surface-to-surface missile, originally designed to carry nuclear warheads and with a range of 300 km; later modified to achieve greater range: used by Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Gulf Wars
Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
I scudded like an autumn leaf, grappling with thin air.
The team looked at three types of freshwater animals -- two species of gammarid, or "scud," which is a small freshwater crustacean; one freshwater snail; and three aquatic insect species.
Fighter jets scudded over the horizon and a stray bomb landed nearby, killing members of a family in their home, they said.
But in summer the view from the opposite side is equally spectacular: the approach of moisture-laden monsoon clouds, scudding across the sky.
The sky was full of low scudding clouds when I landed in early December.
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