scupperverb [ T ]
uk/ˈskʌp.ər/us/ˈskʌp.ɚ/UK US scuttlescupper verb [ T ] (SINK)
to sink your own ship on purpose
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Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking
- bail
- bail sth out
- ducking
- go
- go under
- ground
- keel
- keel over
- refloat
- resurface
- ride
- ride sth out
- right
- run
- run aground/ashore idiom
- sank
- scuttle
- submerge
- sunken
- unsinkable
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scupper verb [ T ] (SPOIL)
to cause something such as a plan or an opportunity to fail:
Arriving late for the interview scuppered my chances of getting the job.
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Upsetting and destabilizing
- bring
- bring sb down
- delegitimize
- destabilize
- dislocate
- disrupt
- knock/throw sb for a loop idiom
- loop
- make waves idiom
- put the skids under sth idiom
- rock
- rock the boat idiom
- stir
- turn sth upside down idiom
- undercut
- unsettling
- upset
- upside down
- wave
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