Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scud
Participle: scudded
Gerund: scudding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scud |
| you | scud |
| he;she;it | scuds |
| we | scud |
| you | scud |
| they | scud |
Perfect
| I | have scudded |
| you | have scudded |
| he;she;it | has scudded |
| we | have scudded |
| you | have scudded |
| they | have scudded |
Past
| I | scudded |
| you | scudded |
| he;she;it | scudded |
| we | scudded |
| you | scudded |
| they | scudded |
Pluperfect
| I | had scudded |
| you | had scudded |
| he;she;it | had scudded |
| we | had scudded |
| you | had scudded |
| they | had scudded |
Future
| I | will scud |
| you | will scud |
| he;she;it | will scud |
| we | will scud |
| you | will scud |
| they | will scud |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scudded |
| you | will have scudded |
| he;she;it | will have scudded |
| we | will have scudded |
| you | will have scudded |
| they | will have scudded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scud |
| you | scud |
| he;she;it | scud |
| we | scud |
| you | scud |
| they | scud |
Perfect
| I | have scudded |
| you | have scudded |
| he;she;it | have scudded |
| we | have scudded |
| you | have scudded |
| they | have scudded |
Imperfect
| I | scudded |
| you | scudded |
| he;she;it | scudded |
| we | scudded |
| you | scudded |
| they | scudded |
Pluperfect
| I | had scudded |
| you | had scudded |
| he;she;it | had scudded |
| we | had scudded |
| you | had scudded |
| they | had scudded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scud |
| you | would scud |
| he;she;it | would scud |
| we | would scud |
| you | would scud |
| they | would scud |
Perfect
| I | would have scudded |
| you | would have scudded |
| he;she;it | would have scudded |
| we | would have scudded |
| you | would have scudded |
| they | would have scudded |
Imperative
| you | scud |
| we | Let's scud |
| you | scud |
Verbs conjugated like 'scud'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'scud'
cud,
scug,
sculd,
scum,
scun,
scur,
scut,
skud,
spud,
stud,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
Sample Sentences
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clouds scudding across the sky
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When scudding on from snare to snare I plied
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My anxious visitation, hurrying on,
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Still hurrying hurrying onward ... [1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:]
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From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
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The startled red-deer scuds the plain […] [1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:]
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The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […] [1844, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in Coningsby, or the New Generation:]
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I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in […] Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […] [1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:]
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If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under. [1835, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor:]
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all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles. [1849, Washington Irving, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; Together with the Voyages of His Companions:]