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Past tense of scud

regular verb

The past tense of scud is scudded. The past participle is also scudded.

Forms of scud

Base form (V1)scud /skʌd/
Past tense (V2)scudded
Past participle (V3)scudded
Present participlescudding
Third person singularscuds

Scudded in a sentence

  • We scudded blithely over the sea.1949, Fred W. Ellis, “Explorations and Departure”, in Round Cape Horn in Sail, South Croydon, Surrey: The Blue Book Company, →OCLC, page 206. From the entry sail close to the wind

Meaning of scud

  1. adjective Naked.
  2. verb To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
  3. verb To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.

Full definition of scud

Questions about the past tense of scud

What is the past tense of scud?
The past tense of scud is scudded.
What is the past participle of scud?
The past participle of scud is scudded.
Is scud a regular or irregular verb?
Scud is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scud (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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