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 --
In the intervening period we have re floated one scuttled medium wave, now using six.
Final figures for the tonnage of shipping scuttled before surrender are not available.
We resisted that move and, thankfully, it was scuttled when we took office in 1979.
He scuttled from one set of topics to another as quickly as possible.
I can see no other reason why they scuttled and ran.
Thirty transports and store ships have been sunk, scuttled, or set on fire, with a loss of several thousands of lives.
She did not make eye contact with any customer whom she knew, and scuttled out.
The majority of munitions were sealed within redundant cargo vessels which were then scuttled.
