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scupper

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈskʌpə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cepprsuStarts with SEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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