Scudding
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The action of the verb to scud.
"The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous."
- 2 the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of scud form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 That scuds or scud. not-comparable
"Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack."
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More examples"The clouds are scudding across the sky."