0 past simple and past participle of scupper
1 to sink your own ship on purpose
2 to cause something such as a plan or an opportunity to fail:
And it's also not scuppered, perhaps quite so easily by ridiculous things which are completely out of our control.
Yet enquiry into the nature of good governance need not be scuppered by ethnocentrism.
The author hopes to illustrate that the will for co-operation remained strong in the wake of currency depreciation but was scuppered by complex political developments.
As a result, the launch of yet another policy initiative has been scuppered.
That very important measure was scuppered in the other place, quite frankly frivolously and disgracefully.
The danger is that the whole thing, including the seaport, could be scuppered.
However, those who call for it to be withdrawn—scuppered completely—are politically inept and do nothing to help the majority of leaseholders.
If she does not, the strategy for community care will be scuppered.
