See scuttle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:",
"text": "By pushing for such an extreme and indefensible position, the old-media moguls sparked a tremendous outcry, which caused the legislation to be redrafted and then scuttled, at least temporarily",
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"ref": "1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:",
"text": "\"My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew.\"",
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"ref": "2002, Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy, Corinthian Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 325:",
"text": "In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.",
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"ref": "2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, Northwestern University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 238:",
"text": "To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2007, Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster, Naval Institute Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 17:",
"text": "He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.",
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"ref": "2009, Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West, Insiders' Guide, published 2009, →ISBN, page 227:",
"text": "In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.",
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"ref": "1958 November 19, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Analysis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., Convair 240, N 94213, New Haven, Connecticut, March 1, 1958, retrieved 2022-11-25, page 4:",
"text": "The third and equally important fact is that at the time of gear retraction more than ample runway remained to brake to a successful stop and even had there been a fire in the left engine no necessity existed for scuttling the aircraft.",
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"text": "The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.",
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"ref": "1994 December 16, Richard W. Stevenson, “Financial Merger Is Scuttled”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The proposed merger of the Morgan Stanley Group and the S. G. Warburg Group collapsed today, scuttling plans by the companies to create one of the world's most powerful investment banks.",
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"ref": "2011 June 24, John Upton, “Fusion Experiment Faces New Hurdles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "But the $3.5 billion ignition facility, derided by some critics as taxpayer-financed science fiction, is running into new challenges that may further delay and perhaps scuttle its goal.",
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"ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:",
"text": "By pushing for such an extreme and indefensible position, the old-media moguls sparked a tremendous outcry, which caused the legislation to be redrafted and then scuttled, at least temporarily",
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"roman": "otvarjam ljukovete",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "отварям люковете"
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"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "barrinar"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "kelderen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "upottaa"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "saborder"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "saboter"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "versenken"
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "vythízo",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "βυθίζω"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "elsüllyeszt"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "autoaffondarsi"
},
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "jichin",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "自沈"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "whakatotohu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatopljatʹ",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "затоплять"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "potopiti"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "barrenar"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "borra i sank"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "To deliberately sink a ship (often by order of the captain)",
"word": "batırmak"
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"ref": "1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:",
"text": "there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.",
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"ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Frank was crouched in the hallway, but scuttled back to his bedroom just in time. With her bloomers still round her ankles Auntie Flip scampered sideways like a crab back to the living room.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ofejkvam",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "офейквам"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "krabbelen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "vilistää"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "kipittää"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "flitzen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "hoppeln"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "trippeln"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "wuseln"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "tippeln"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "eilen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "davoneilen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "flitzen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "davonflitzen"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "rohan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "rohangál"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "sciurd"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "scinn"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "tuoma"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "karapetapeta"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "takawhiti"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "udirátʹ",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "удира́ть"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
"word": "cupkati"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "To move hastily, to scurry",
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"text": "She scarce gave me time to return her salute, before she quitted the shop with an easy scuttle, and stepped again into her coach",
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