supersudden
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]supersudden (comparative more supersudden, superlative most supersudden)
- (rare) Very sudden; with little or no warning.
- 1945, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1945: Volume 110[1], Superintendent of Government Documents, page 788:
- 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.
- 1981, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Congressional Record[2], Superintendent of Government Documents, page 27964:
- 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.
- 2012, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Fingerprints of You[3], Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 144:
- 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.