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scud

verb/skʌd/

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister

To move swiftly and lightly, especially driven along by the wind.

Clouds scudded across the moon, throwing the garden into fitful darkness.

Similar: skim, race, fly

Origin: 16th-c. English, perhaps from Old Norse.

Topic: swift movement in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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