Scudding

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of scud form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 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."

Synonyms

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scudscud

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"The clouds are scudding across the sky."

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