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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suddenly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
die suddenly
▪ She died suddenly of a heart attack, in Amsterdam.
suddenly disappear
▪ The ship had suddenly disappeared in calm waters.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
▪ As Katherine watched them and listened, she was suddenly aware that her father seemed different than he did in New York.
▪ Converse was suddenly aware that he had stopped sweating.
▪ There is a gap again because I stopped work, suddenly aware that an alien indignation was invading my soul.
▪ Instead he seemed rather average, and I was suddenly aware of his increased age.
▪ He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell.
▪ He cried out, suddenly aware he was in total darkness, the smashing of stone joining the cry.
▪ Tom was suddenly aware that it was raining, that thin, gray sheets of rain were slapping against the window-panes.
■ VERB
appear
▪ If a bear suddenly appears, the goats head for precipitous ledges where the less agile predator can not follow.
▪ The girl screamed, and a stout, red-faced man suddenly appeared behind her and opened the door wider.
▪ It seems odd that this extra day should suddenly appear every Leap Year but there is a good reason.
▪ The crag appears suddenly on the riverbank, monstrously overhanging and shockingly red.
▪ The two policemen suddenly appeared behind her and pulled her away from the window.
▪ It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you haven't worn since it came back from the cleaners.
▪ About half way through the fifty-kilometer journey, the Dolomites suddenly appeared as the mist lifted.
ask
▪ Remember that it is not a race, so do not suddenly ask your horse for maximum speed.
▪ Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
become
▪ Upon completion of this much work on the proposal, some students suddenly become reluctant to carry the project any further.
▪ People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards.
▪ This muting of campaign controversy does not mean the global agency has suddenly become a political favorite.
▪ Sorrel, asleep on the settee, suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen.
▪ Solemn works printed on shirts suddenly become funny or ironic.
▪ Earth would suddenly become vivid and real with a vibrancy of colour and texture.
▪ After years of inconsistency, he has suddenly become dependable, recording 14 double-doubles in the 21 games before Thursday night.
begin
▪ Kelpie looked at.her with his bright beady eyes, and then suddenly began to chirp.
▪ The boat suddenly began to lurch and sway.
▪ Three years ago she suddenly began to produce gold leaf.
▪ Burlap-covered bulletin boards were installed for notices, which Alvin would suddenly begin to rearrange whenever he was choreographing.
▪ She looked warily at him, her pulses sounding an alarm, and was taken aback when he suddenly began to laugh.
▪ The defense attorney, in the midst of arguing his motion, suddenly began gagging an coughing.
▪ It's only if something suddenly begins to move that you start asking questions.
▪ During testing, the paint suddenly began to fail.
change
▪ It was as if his life had suddenly changed and he had put on years.
▪ But the arrival of the new Negro teacher suddenly changed things.
▪ In a dream, things change suddenly, without reason.
▪ The environment suddenly changes and what has been the dominant species rapidly dies out to be replaced by some other species.
▪ Mark Antony has suddenly changed his personality ie he has become tough, perceptive.
▪ The atmosphere had suddenly changed in the windowless little room, and she was interested to know why.
▪ One is if the providers of finance suddenly change their behaviour.
▪ Consider a young man whose world has suddenly changed.
come
▪ The spectacular rise to power throughout the 1920s suddenly came to a halt, betrayed by the leaders who had inspired it.
▪ A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
▪ The media are suddenly coming alive with faith and life issues.
▪ But all their exploits and explorations suddenly came to an abrupt end.
▪ My lungs suddenly come sharply through from behind my engaged brain, reminding me that I am not a fish.
▪ The rain came suddenly and a hot wind, as if some one had opened a furnace door, hurled it against the car.
▪ Illness and death came suddenly: it was as if, over many years, she had simply worn herself out.
decide
▪ She suddenly decided to have it chopped off.
▪ On Nov. 23, the president suddenly decided to call a meeting.
▪ There'd be a Chlamydia Weaver toddling around today if her mother hadn't suddenly decided that Sally was easier to spell.
▪ Then, one day, after fifteen years at the practice, I suddenly decided to abandon the law.
▪ For example, consider a simple situation such as a person suddenly deciding to start walking.
▪ What would you do differently if you suddenly decided to be guided by the spirit of love where you work?
▪ If nervous consumers suddenly decide to save more and spend less, a serious recession could follow.
▪ By suddenly deciding that the dog needs a walk.
die
▪ Then Minnie - terrier type again, very loving, strayed a lot, died suddenly, probably ate something.
▪ In the spring of 1938 the old doctor who had attended her died suddenly and a young man took over the practice.
▪ Erich Maria Remarque told the story of three men he had known whose wives died suddenly in accidents.
▪ He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.
▪ A few months after the father left, the mother died suddenly.
▪ He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962.
▪ Lehman was at Dana-Farber for cancer treatment when she died suddenly on Dec. 3, 1994.
drop
▪ It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
▪ The penny suddenly drops, and he is revealed as the one who makes sense of life.
▪ Tennessee Williams has written about several football heroes who suddenly drop through the floor at the height of their prowess.
▪ It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured.
▪ He dropped suddenly on to the edge of the bed.
▪ He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee, placing the left hand on the floor in front of him.
▪ Several calls have been eventually connected but are suddenly dropped by the system for no apparent reason. 4.
feel
▪ You feel sicker, then somehow you emerge feeling suddenly light and rested.
▪ He suddenly felt cold but he could also feel the sweat running down the sides of his face.
▪ He started past her, suddenly feeling as giddy and lightheaded as a thieving boy.
▪ I suddenly felt so much older and so tired all the time.
▪ The rector felt suddenly weakened, as if the anger had seeped into his own bones, his own spirit.
▪ My chest feels suddenly empty, in spite of the pressure.
▪ But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
find
▪ Why did Delaney suddenly find he was suspicious about the meteorological report?
▪ What is significant is that vast organizational conglomerates suddenly found themselves saddled with the consequences of years of exclusionary and inbred policies.
▪ Corbett took his seat, trying to ignore de Craon who was grinning as if he had suddenly found something amusing.
▪ She felt like a person driving down a one-way road who suddenly finds herself confronted by another car hurtling toward her.
▪ Will the forgotten peasants suddenly find that some one has remembered them?
▪ To make it to safety, the new environment in which we suddenly find ourselves must be understood.
▪ She suddenly found it much easier to breathe.
▪ He reminded Dexter of a panic-stricken mole who had suddenly found himself trapped outside his burrow.
look
▪ With so many other potential challengers struggling, United are suddenly looking the team most likely to win the Premier League.
▪ They look suddenly ridiculous to me, all wrong for the desert.
▪ Cymbeline Bishop looks suddenly small and, though green to me, white.
▪ He looked suddenly stricken, although I did nothing to betray his lapse.
▪ That is not because the economy looks suddenly resilient.
▪ The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
▪ He suddenly looked very large and threatening in the doorway.
▪ He suddenly looked and felt like a bit of a fool.
realised
▪ He hardly knew him, he realised suddenly.
▪ He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom.
▪ The friar suddenly realised that Cranston's claim that Allingham was murdered was really a piece of pure guesswork on his part.
▪ Or at least, that was what they wanted him to think, he suddenly realised.
▪ Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden.
▪ She suddenly realised how close she was to the fortune-teller's shop and an impulse drew her towards it.
▪ He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there.
▪ Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself!
realize
▪ I realized suddenly that this was all.
▪ Gabby felt tears sting her eyes, suddenly realizing the full force of what was happening.
▪ I suddenly realized that I was going mad too, that he was wickedly wickedly cunning.
▪ He only wished again for help and then suddenly realized he was wishing for Cynthia.
▪ I've suddenly realized how bizarre this situation is.
▪ Glover suddenly realized that he linked both this boy and Lois with the end of his privacy.
▪ I suddenly realized she was talking to me.
▪ I tried to sound composed, not to show courage but because I suddenly realized it was simply the only alternative.
remember
▪ Then she suddenly remembered that they must all be at church.
▪ Fearless until now, I suddenly remembered the reason why pressure cookers had fallen out of favor.
▪ Corbett suddenly remembered his last meeting with the nuns at Godstowe and his heart began to pound.
▪ I suddenly remembered I had not asked him the price of the repairs.
▪ Brian propped himself up on his elbows, suddenly remembering that the alarm had gone off.
▪ It was like a forest, and I suddenly remembered the story Janie had read us.
▪ He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers.
▪ Jessica was yet another contentious subject my sister and I best avoid, I remember suddenly.
seem
▪ It was he now who seemed suddenly embarrassed, ill at ease.
▪ Even the quality of the afternoon light seemed suddenly flat and dull.
▪ What with cursing priests and so very many sick people, the world suddenly seemed an unkind, unhappy place.
▪ It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure, something I'd one day soon be telling everyone about.
▪ He had his arm around her, but she suddenly seemed distant, lost in the movie.
▪ He could have forced the window in time, anyone could, but he seemed suddenly to think better of it.
▪ It's funny, but when the lights come on, it suddenly seems more dark in the park.
start
▪ My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me.
▪ During a visit, Michael suddenly starts screaming.
▪ It was during one of these stops that she heard a sound that made her start suddenly.
▪ As the wasp hovered near, the caterpillars suddenly started flailing from side to side.
▪ Be understanding if he or she suddenly starts wetting the bed or crying for attention following a bad dream in the night.
▪ So there was no way crowds would suddenly start hitting the 35, 000-40, 000 level at the Coliseum.
▪ It seemed to the royal couple that he suddenly started to speak very hesitantly.
▪ J., two old government buildings suddenly started shaking.
stop
▪ Then, some time after midnight, the music suddenly stops.
▪ She stopped suddenly, her hand frozen in mid-air.
▪ The proposed satellite interconnection system that I was fighting so hard to stop suddenly looked terribly appealing.
▪ She stopped suddenly when she saw a stranger in the kitchen.
▪ Back on the high-way, truck in front of me missed gear, stopped suddenly on incline.
▪ The form at the head of the stairs had suddenly stopped in its tracks, waiting, its back turned to John.
think
▪ Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it.
▪ I suddenly thought of stopping in and asking you about something.
▪ I suddenly thought - My dreams!
▪ There was something about those little feet, Guy thought suddenly, trying to pin down the memory.
▪ I put another case in front of it, an empty one, and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book.
turn
▪ She turned suddenly kind, pity on her face.
▪ And with that he stormed toward the hotel, then suddenly turned and raced back after her.
▪ He suddenly turned his head as though a disembodied finger had tapped his shoulder.
▪ Every time I get the hang of an idea it suddenly turns into something different and I turn into a fool!
▪ The Bears had better start grabbing on to something, anything, as the outlook on the season suddenly turned very grim.
▪ But she stunned producers when she suddenly turned down the role!
▪ When Ishmael decides to visit the chapel, the weather has suddenly turned cold and bleak and snowing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
▪ Suddenly there was a loud bang and all the lights went out.
▪ I suddenly realized that there was someone following me.
▪ Jane suddenly realized she was falling in love with him.
▪ Several years ago her husband died suddenly at the age of 64.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As suddenly, she rejected the idea.
▪ As the train slid slowly into Asansol station, Brother Mariadas, suddenly wide awake, shook me out of my reverie.
▪ Carl, as it happened, left our school almost as suddenly as he had come there.
▪ Having hundreds of millions of people watching on television suddenly made sense, for a moment.
▪ It tore past me, and I suddenly knew: the Wild Huntsman had commanded it to carry away a human soul.
▪ You bring the glass up to your lips, but suddenly you think: What am I doing?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suddenly

Sudden \Sud"den\, a. [OE. sodian, sodein, OF. sodain, sudain, F. soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p. p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, secretly + ire to go. See Issue, and cf. Subitaneous.]

  1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy. ``O sudden wo!''
    --Chaucer. ``For fear of sudden death.''
    --Shak.

    Sudden fear troubleth thee.
    --Job xxii. 10.

  2. Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

    Never was such a sudden scholar made.
    --Shak.

    The apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye.
    --Milton.

  3. Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: Unexpected; unusual; abrupt; unlooked-for. [1913 Webster] -- Sud"den*ly, adv. -- Sud"den*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suddenly

late 13c., sodeinli; see sudden + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
suddenly

adv. Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

WordNet
suddenly

  1. adv. happening unexpectedly; "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side" [syn: all of a sudden, of a sudden]

  2. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, short, dead]

  3. on impulse; without premeditation; "he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment"; "he made up his mind suddenly" [syn: on the spur of the moment]

Wikipedia
Suddenly (Marcus Miller album)

Suddenly is an album by Marcus Miller, released in 1983.

The album was re-released in 1999.

Suddenly (1954 film)

The tranquility of a small town is jarred when the U.S. president is scheduled to pass through and a hired assassin takes over the Benson home as a perfect location to ambush the president.

Suddenly

Suddenly may refer to:

Suddenly (Toni Braxton song)

"Suddenly" is a song by American R&B singer–songwriter Toni Braxton, released internationally in February 2006 as the lead single from the European edition of her fifth studio album, Libra (2005). Written and produced by Richard Marx, it failed to make the charts anywhere. The track features Chris Botti on the trumpet, and was originally planned to appear on his 2005 album To Love Again: The Duets. Marx recorded this song as a duet with Braxton for his 2008 studio release Sundown and would later release it as a solo track on Now And Forever: The Ballads and yet as a different version on Beautiful Goodbye.

Suddenly (Arrogance album)

Suddenly is the fourth album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).

Suddenly (Sean Maguire song)

"Suddenly" is a song by Sean Maguire, released as the third single from his first album, Sean Maguire. It reached number 18 and spent five weeks in the UK Singles Chart.

Suddenly (Ashley Tisdale song)

"Suddenly" is a single from Ashley Tisdale's debut album Headstrong, the song was released in Germany on May 2, 2008, as her fourth single there. The song was not released in the United States, and was her debut album's final single.

Suddenly (Billy Ocean album)

Suddenly is the fifth studio album by British recording artist Billy Ocean, released in 1984. It featured his first major U.S. pop hit single " Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart.

Suddenly (Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard song)

"Suddenly" is a song from the soundtrack album Xanadu, and is the love theme from the 1980 film of the same name. The song is performed as a duet between Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard. It was written by John Farrar who also produced the record. It was released on Jet Records and reached No. 15 in the UK charts in October 1980 and reached No. 20 in the US. The video shows them in a penthouse singing the song to each other.

Suddenly (BT song)

"Suddenly" is the third single by experimental trance musician BT from his sixth studio album, These Hopeful Machines.

Suddenly (EP)

Suddenly is the first extended play of American pop/rock band Allstar Weekend, who were signed with Hollywood Records at the time of release. The album was released on June 21, 2010, in the USA and on July 20, 2010, in Canada. It has been met with some commercial success, debuting at number 62 on the Billboard 200.

The track "The Weekend" is not a single but a music video was made.

Suddenly (2006 film)

Suddenly is a Swedish film from 2006, directed by Johan Brisinger. The film was shot on the island Härmanö in Orust Municipality.

Suddenly (LeAnn Rimes song)

"Suddenly" is the second and final single released by American country recording artist, LeAnn Rimes from her seventh studio album, Twisted Angel. It was released on February 18, 2003.

A music video for the song was directed by Cameron Casey and released in 2003.

The song peaked at number forty-three on the Billboard Country Songs chart.

Suddenly (1996 film)

Suddenly is a made-for-TV movie. It was first aired on ABC on 1 December 1996, and stars Kirstie Alley and Jason Beghe. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and written by David Kinghorn and Marilyn Kinghorn. It deals with some of the issues faced by paraplegic wheelchair users.

Suddenly (Billy Ocean song)

"Suddenly" is a popular song from 1985 written and performed by the Trinidadian-born, British-based pop music singer Billy Ocean. It is the title track to the singer's 1984 breakthrough album, which was produced by Keith Diamond.

Released as the third single from the album (following the success of " Caribbean Queen" and " Loverboy"), the ballad, "Suddenly", reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1985, peaking at number four. The song reached the same chart peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, spending two weeks at number four in June of that year. It peaked at number five on the Billboard R&B chart and spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard adult contemporary chart.

Suddenly (Angry Anderson song)

"Suddenly" is a power ballad by Angry Anderson from his first solo album, Beats From a Single Drum. Released in Australia in mid-1987 and in the UK in late-1988, the song became Anderson's biggest hit, reaching number 2 in the ARIA Singles Chart, and number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

There were two music videos made in 1987 for this song:

  1. Black & White version. Features a bald Australian model at the time with intermingled close ups of her vs Angry's tattoos and ends in a close up of all three of them, standing with a child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnwnW_d81U).
  2. Colour version. Features Angry Anderson singing this song and switches to shots of a bald woman in different poses, in different parts of an urban city (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpJJ7yYKWU).

Part of the song's chart success is attributed to it being used in the Australian soap Neighbours (" Episode 523"), during the wedding of the characters Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell, which was viewed by 20 million viewers in the UK. The ballad, which is played over the ceremony, was also chosen by Kylie Minogue, who played Charlene, as the song to be played at her own future wedding.

"Suddenly" was denied the UK number 2 spot by the release of the Kylie and Jason Donovan duet, " Especially for You".

This song has been used in the season 3 final of the award winning UK sitcom Gavin and Stacey at the wedding of Vanessa Jenkins and Dave Coaches. It was also used in the first episode of Sirens on Channel 4 in the UK for the opening scene and throughout the episode. More recently, the song has regularly been played for nostalgia purposes at social and university reunions.

Suddenly (2013 film)

Suddenly is a 2013 thriller film directed by Uwe Boll, with a screenplay by Raul Inglis and starring Ray Liotta. It is a loose remake of the 1954 film of the same name.

Suddenly (Les Misérables)

"Suddenly" is a song created for the 2012 film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, included in both the film itself and the related soundtrack album. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2012.

Suddenly (J-Walk album)

Suddenly is the debut album by Korean duo male group J-Walk. Former Sechskies members, Kim Jae Duc and Jang Su Won, return as a project group with the name J-Walk. Their comeback/debut album has been diligently prepared since their breakup, May 2000. The album was released two years later, on March 2002. The featured song "Suddenly" contains crossover jazz, R&B-ish songs with a pop/ballad formant.

Usage examples of "suddenly".

We had suddenly switched our allegiance from India to Aboriginal Australia and I guess, in their eyes, they could see no reason why we would do that except for the money.

Suddenly, it was as if a window in heaven had been opened and I saw a group of Aboriginal women standing together.

You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.

A large eel suddenly broke the surface tearing at the side of my abraided leg.

Suddenly, Abrim wanted nothing so much as to exit this gleaming sterile bubble and get back to his crowded, cluttered ship.

Suddenly he glanced absently at the pistol in his hand, and returned it to his holster.

Mere minutes after the decoys had completed their burns, six COREs, accelerating at a terrifying rate, suddenly lifted out of orbit toward the decoys.

Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.

Suddenly she heard movement in the undergrowth and whirled to see Acorn lunging toward her with a crazed gleam in his eyes.

I suddenly realized that Aden relished playing lord of the manor, and his humor and teasing were all part of that larger-than-life image.

In the midst of this zeal against popery and the pretender, they were suddenly adjourned by the command of the lord-lieutenant, and broke up in great animosity against that nobleman.

Suddenly she cast aside the book and rushed to the afterclap of the wagon.

Jannis saw how Ali Aga had fallen in the world, and suddenly he felt very fond of this Turk, whose misery frightened him.

Her allies in the East, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, suddenly were faced with the fact that France would not fight against German aggression to preserve the security system which the French government itself had taken the lead in so laboriously building up.

There is no cure for the ailment that has so suddenly come over me and my doctor tells me that I have, at most, a few months more to live.