0 to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape:
1 to intentionally sink a ship, especially your own, in order to prevent it from being taken by an enemy
2 to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail
3 a coal scuttle
5 to give up a plan or activity, or spoil a possibility for success:
6 to intentionally sink a ship by opening a hole in the bottom or sides
Enemy tonnage is largely lost, tied up at home or in neutral ports, sunk or scuttled—mostly scuttled, one might say.
Certainly when one gets into the position of scuttling a ship and claiming its full insurance value one is dealing with very large sums indeed.
I do not suppose there was ever a milder man charged with the duty of scuttling a ship or of destroying constitutional practice.
Here we are, microscopic creatures scuttling about on the surface of a minor planet circling round a second-rate star in one of halt-a-million galaxies.
The third was an inspector of scuttles, and he ordered them to get the cargo out and paint the scuttles inside.
At times, indeed, their policy has seemed suspiciously like one of scuttling away from our responsibilities behind a smoke screen of bluster.
She did not make eye contact with any customer whom she knew, and scuttled out.
Thirty transports and store ships have been sunk, scuttled, or set on fire, with a loss of several thousands of lives.
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