Definitions for sudd

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Spelling: [suhd]
IPA: /sʌd/

Sudd is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in sudd (ddsu).

Definitions for sudd

noun

  1. (in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.

Origin of sudd

1870-75; Arabic: literally, obstruction

Examples for sudd

Baker cut through fifty miles of the sudd, and urged the khdive to reopen the Nile.

At length the sudd becomes soft and yields to the pressure of the water, and then the Nile is navigable again.

Their advance was impeded by the sudd, and, after writing discouraging reports, their attempt was abandoned.

The sudd, it is supposed, stopped the advance of the Roman centurions who were sent up the Nile in the days of Nero.

The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.

The sudd was found to be piled up and of almost as close a structure as peat.

Scrambling away, they beheld the head of a crocodile protruding through the sudd.

There was found to be large quantities of grass weed and sudd in the Nile at no great distance from Fashoda.

Word Value for sudd
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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