0 past simple and past participle of scuttle
1 to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape:
2 to intentionally sink a ship, especially your own, in order to prevent it from being taken by an enemy
3 to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail
Ultimately the model is scuttled.
It has been moved from where it first sank, and subsequently scuttled nearby.
Of those which leave harbour a great proportion are either captured or scuttled to avoid capture.
Enemy tonnage is largely lost, tied up at home or in neutral ports, sunk or scuttled—mostly scuttled, one might say.
By that time we had reopened three of our scuttled wave lengths, and we were operating on five wave lengths.
That was deeply unpopular with pensioners and within weeks he scuttled back to the drawing board, ending up with a complete hash of a policy.
He did not like what he heard, because he was ashamed of it, and he scuttled out fairly quickly afterwards.
The majority of munitions were sealed within redundant cargo vessels which were then scuttled.
