Synonyms for scud

Most common

flash · dart

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Antonyms

clad

All antonyms of scud →

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).

   clouds scudding across the sky

2. n. 1

   A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.

Forms

Plural

scuds → pannuses, fracti, whids…

Past participle

scudded
e.g. scudded → darted, scooted, scampered, shot…

Example sentences

• flash I think I'll save all my files on the flash drive.
• dart Tom was killed by a poison dart fired from a blowgun.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

run¹, hie

4 letters

post¹, tear¹, dash¹, rack¹, dart¹, whid

5 letters

speed¹, shoot¹, flash¹, haste¹, scoot¹

6 letters

hasten², pannus

7 letters

scamper², fractus

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hasten² = 2 syllables).