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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scuttle .
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Examples
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It is disappointing to see the idea scuttled now when we need it more than ever. gerrymandering is to blame for the nation's woes.
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(HuffPo keeps foolishly running a headline about how Republicans are denying that she might be scuttled, which is kind of like the old saw about somebody denying that he hits his wife.)
Hollywood Elsewhere 2008
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(HuffPo keeps foolishly running a headline about how Republicans are denying that she might be scuttled, which is kind of like the old saw about somebody denying that he hits his wife.)
Hollywood Elsewhere 2008
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President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, one of the few Arab nations with diplomatic ties with Israel, said Monday that Mr. Netanyahu's words "scuttled" chances to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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In a single act of cowardice and betrayal, if not treason, the US congress has 'scuttled' the Articles of Impeachment drawn up and carefully researched by Dennis Kucinich.
Liberty Betrayed 2008
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Anyway, now I have to wear shoes in the house, because I've already impaled my feet on tiny cutlasses, slipped on miniature cannon balls and "scuttled" a couple of galleons by not watching out where I was walking.
Archive 2007-12-01 Don Lewis 2007
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Anyway, now I have to wear shoes in the house, because I've already impaled my feet on tiny cutlasses, slipped on miniature cannon balls and "scuttled" a couple of galleons by not watching out where I was walking.
It Comes But Once A Year Don Lewis 2007
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(2002-06) had "scuttled" the probe and had destroyed evidence, United News of Bangladesh (UNB) news agency reported.
The Times of India 2010
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That timeline was scuttled when lawyers for the Pakistani government, which had indicated it would support Davis's immunity claim at the hearing, said they needed more time to prepare a position.
Court gives Pakistan 3 weeks to decide American's immunity Karin Brulliard 2011
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But intense political and public opposition scuttled the prosecution and it is unclear where - or whether - Mohammed will be tried.
Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay 2011
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