Usually means: Deliberately sunk own ship; thwarted.
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  1. scuttled: Merriam-Webster
  2. scuttled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scuttled: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scuttled, scuttled: Wordnik
  5. scuttled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scuttled: Wiktionary
  7. scuttled: Dictionary.com
  8. scuttled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scuttled: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Scuttled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Scuttled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. scuttled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. scuttled: FreeDictionary.org
  14. scuttled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scuttled: Encyclopedia

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  1. scuttled: Idioms

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  1. Scuttled: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scuttle)

noun:  A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
noun:  A broad, shallow basket.
noun:  (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
noun:  A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
noun:  (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
noun:  (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
noun:  (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
verb:  (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
verb:  (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
noun:  A quick pace; a short run.
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