scuttling
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1. scuttling - Noun
2. scuttling - Verb
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20th century During World War II, after the Allied landings in North Africa ( Operation Torch ) the German Army occupied southern France ( Case Anton ), leading to the scuttling of the French Fleet at Toulon (27 November 1942).
A distributor for Co-Diagnostics offered Maryland more than 500,000 tests at a cheaper cost during a call on 10 April, according to a person familiar with the pitch who requested anonymity to avoid scuttling future potential business.
Broadway shaped course to ram, but fired two depth charges beneath the U-boat instead, in an endeavour to make the crew abandon ship before scuttling her. citation Lemp announced "Last stop, everybody out", meaning "Abandon ship".
And that was the tenor of the statement he sent to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this week, warning Israel’s leaders against scuttling the two-state solution — which he sees as critical to Israel’s survival — by annexing parts of the West Bank.
Now, the canal is filled with tiny fish, scuttling crabs, and an array of multicoloured plants.
It makes former Senate President Olusola Saraki appear like one with a halo for simply scuttling the barbarous counsel that would have made the draconian bills such disturbers of the peace in the Eight Senate.