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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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Origin of scud2
Origin of scud3
Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
If they were, then we could all run out and purchase a tank, a grenade launcher, a bazooka, a SCUD missile and a nuclear warhead.
There are still airstrikes and now Scud-missile attacks, and bodies of executed people are being pulled out of the river.
And who was now running the Scud missiles and bombers that would be deployed to use these chemical weapons?
One day apart, North Korea launched a long-range missile to much fanfare, and the Assad regime fired Scud missiles on the rebels.
“You aim a Scud at a city and hope it lands somewhere important,” said one retired U.S. intelligence officer.
I never seed a scud on the 'Banks' but 'ut it was allus follered by a fog.
The small ragged clouds which are sometimes seen sailing rapidly through the air, are called scud.
He has discarded a heavy folio for a light romance, while the hours scud by, broken only by the observations.
Captain Downs instinctively squinted aloft at the scud which was dimming the stars; he sniffed at the volleying wind.
The moon had gone in, and a misty scud-wrack spreading itself overhead was creeping around the dim crags on high.
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