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scupper

verb
🔊/ˈskʌpə(r)/
🔊/ˈskʌpər/
 (British English, informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scupper
🔊/ˈskʌpə(r)/
🔊/ˈskʌpər/
he / she / it scuppers
🔊/ˈskʌpəz/
🔊/ˈskʌpərz/
past simple scuppered
🔊/ˈskʌpəd/
🔊/ˈskʌpərd/
past participle scuppered
🔊/ˈskʌpəd/
🔊/ˈskʌpərd/
-ing form scuppering
🔊/ˈskʌpərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈskʌpərɪŋ/
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  1. scupper something to cause somebody/something to fail使泡汤；使成泡影 synonym foil
    • The residents' protests scuppered his plans for developing the land.居民的抗议使他开发这片土地的计划泡了汤。🔊🔊
    • Their chances of winning were scuppered by injury.他们的获胜机会因受伤而受挫。
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryScupper is used with these nouns as the object:
    • chance
    • deal
    • plan
    • …
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    Word Originlate 19th cent. (as military slang in the sense ‘kill, especially in an ambush’): of unknown origin.