sudden meaning
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WSudden
- James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by an English author Oliver Strange in the early 1930s as the hero of a series, originally published by George Newnes Books Ltd, set in the American Wild West era.
- NounPLsuddens
- OBS An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
- OBS An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
- AdjectiveCOMmore suddenSUPmost sudden
- Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- OBS Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
- OBS Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
- Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
- AdverbCOMmore suddenSUPmost sudden
- (poetic) Suddenly.
- (poetic) Suddenly.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- All the sudden questions put him on the spot and he had to think quickly.
- Excessive sprouting of sympathetic nerves and subsequent hyperinnervation received increased attention due to their associations with fatal arrhythmia and sudden death[1 ].
- Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- You can't turn round and blame me all of a sudden.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sudden in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary