transcription, транскрипция: [ skʌt(ə)l ]
( scuttles, scuttling, scuttled)
1.
When people or small animals scuttle somewhere, they run there with short quick steps.
Two very small children scuttled away in front of them...
VERB : V adv / prep
2.
To scuttle a plan or a proposal means to make it fail or cause it to stop.
Such threats could scuttle the peace conference.
= scupper
VERB : V n
3.
To scuttle a ship means to sink it deliberately by making holes in the bottom.
He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.
VERB : V n , also V