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# scud

«scud» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run or move quickly and lightly away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (scud, scuds, scudded, scudding)

### meaning for a pupil

To scud is to run or move quickly and lightly away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scud/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, an animal startled by a noise that runs off fast

### examples

- The hare scudded away into the bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scud/#x1)
- The clouds scudded across the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scud/#x2)
- The mouse scudded under the door when the cat came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scud/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scud» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scud/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.