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Definitions
put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Word origin
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English scope (“scoop”) or Dutch schop (“shovel”) + -er; or from Dutch scheppen (“to draw off”).
Used in a sentence
“The bad media coverage scuppered his chances of being elected.”
“["]The only chance was to get the guns and try a rescue. Of course they may scupper them at once in revenge.["]”
“This is the face of American exceptionalism[…] threatening to scupper both the court and, failing that, UN peace-keeping operations in Bosnia and anywhere else the US might have forces deployed on such work.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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