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scuttle (verb), scuttles; scuttled; scuttling
1. To undermine or to destroy someone's position or property: The candidate for governor had scuttled his chances of winning with his negative outburst about his opponent.
2. Etymology: from Latin scutella, a form of Latin scutra, "a flat tray, a dish".
To scrap or to discard something.
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