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supersudden en · ADJ

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English sudden English supersudden From super- + sudden.

Meanings

1. (rare) Very sudden; with little or no warning.
   • Emmy said I blacked out supersudden and hard, which she thought was very hip of me, since half the crowd was on drugs, and in a way, fainting made me blend in a little better. “Well played,” she said. 2012, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Fingerprints of You, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 144:
   • The Pershing II missiles— there are 108 in the plan—can reach Russia from Germany in five minutes, thus producing a new possibility of a supersudden first strike—even on Moscow itself. That is too fast. 1981, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Congressional Record, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 27964:
   • Whether this is true, or to what extent the transmitted load may be lessened by a supersudden load, as compared to just a sudden load, is not known. 1945, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1945: Volume 110, Superintendent of Government Documents, page 788:

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