Definition of sudden

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Sudden (adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.

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Extempore :: Extempore (adv.) Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore..
Impulse :: Impulse (n.) The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
Volt :: Volt (n.) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
Ejaculatory :: Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition..
Deliberate :: Deliberate (a.) Not hasty or sudden; slow.
Impulsion :: Impulsion (n.) The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse..
Precipitate :: Precipitate (v. t.) To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict..
Precipice :: Precipice (n.) A sudden or headlong fall.
Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
Click :: Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward..
Glance :: Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye..
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet..
Affray :: Affray (v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt..
Saccade :: Saccade (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up..
Flare-up :: Flare-up (n.) A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
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