SCUDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scudding mean? 

• SCUDDING (noun)
  The noun SCUDDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

  Familiarity information: SCUDDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCUDDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

scud; scudding

Hypernyms ("scudding" is a kind of...):

hurrying; speed; speeding (changing location rapidly)

Derivation:

scud (run before a gale)

 Context examples 

How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing—like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life; how sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)