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scuttle

verb as in destroy

Strong matches

verb as in hurry

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The Honolulu Harbour Board confirmed it had the ship towed into deep water about 25 miles offshore on Wednesday and then scuttled.

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This is shrewd on both the merits and politics, and it’s instructive that Democrats scuttled a procedural vote 50-44.

Yet during oral arguments, the court’s GOP appointees looked ready to scuttle the nation’s most effective civil rights litigation.

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Luckily, the man scuttled back into his vehicle and drove off as soon as I looked him in the eye and sized him up.

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Andy will not, for instance, hold the way open for his human allies fleeing a horde of scuttling terrors.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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