scuttle 的 2 个定义
- Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel.a cover for this.
- a small hatchlike opening in a roof or ceiling.
scut·tled, scut·tling.
- to sink deliberately by opening seacocks or making openings in the bottom.
- to abandon, withdraw from, or cause to be abandoned or destroyed.
scuttle 近义词
hurry
destroy
更多scuttle例句
- By one count, 20 industry lobbyists were in the halls trying to scuttle SB 962 as it came to a vote nine days later.
- An ostentatious display of Japanese military might could scuttle those negotiations.
- Bryk came in third, but he notes with pride that he bested the coal scuttle helmet man in his home county.
- Any disagreement we had with them was criticized as an attempt to scuttle the building of the memorial.
- Marco Rubio, on the other hand, led the GOP effort to scuttle the thing on abortion-related grounds.
- And Robinson heard him scuttle about and hastily convene small boys and dispatch them down the road to look at an honest man.
- In a minute or two, a black head was seen to rise slowly and fearfully out of the fore-scuttle, then it disappeared.
- The water then flowed in from the top through the deck scuttle forward of the collision bulkhead.
- It was by this scuttle that access was obtained to all the decks below C down to the peak tank top on the orlop deck.
- The fore-scuttle hatch was closed to keep everything dark before the bridge.