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scupper

1 verb
     
Related topics: Water
scup‧per1 [transitive] British English
1 to ruin someone's plans or chance of being successful - used especially in news reports [= scuttle American English]
Plans to build a private hospital have been scuppered after a government inquiry.
2TTW to deliberately sink your own ship
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