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scuttle

verbCommon GRE wordMore S words

to deliberately cause to fail or be abandoned

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Last-minute objections scuttled the merger.

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rescuesalvage

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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Scuttle (verb) means to deliberately cause to fail or be abandoned
Here is scuttle used in an example sentence: "Last-minute objections scuttled the merger."
Common synonyms for scuttle include thwart, sink, sabotage.
Antonyms of scuttle include rescue, salvage.
Scuttle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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