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Definition: SCUTTLED |
SCUTTLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Scuttle |
Date "SCUTTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Crosswords: SCUTTLED |
| Specialty definitions using "SCUTTLED": KIDD ♦ Noyades. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Photographed circa 1970, by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, for which the ship was operated by the Military Sealift Command. The original caption, received with this photograph under date of October 1970, states: "... The ship has been used to investigate the ocean depths and to locate lost ships and, most recently, to find the site of the scuttled Liberty Ship Le Baron Russell Briggs which sank during August 1970 in 16,000 feet of water about 230 miles off the coast of Florida with 418 concrete and steel coffins of nerve-gas rockets aboard.". Credit: NAVY. |  | Refueling USS Yorktown (CV-5), 1 May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea. Note use of Yorktown's aircraft crane to support her end of the refueling rig. Neosho was bombed by Japanese carrier planes on 7 May 1942 and scuttled on 11 May. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s. Note the engines' horizontal cylinders, with the shafts of her twin screws beyond them. This machinery had been wrecked with sledge hammers when the ship was scuttled in December 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | 19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance). This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Scuttled wreck of the Spanish cruiser Isla de Cuba, photographed sometime after the battle. This ship was later salvaged and became USS Isla de Cuba. Credit: NAVY. |  | This Type A midget submarine was found scuttled off Guadalcanal in 1943, after the Japanese evacuated their forces on the island. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Beached near Aruligo Point on the northern shore of Guadalcanal, 1 May 1944. It had been raised by eight Navy Seabees from a sunken position 20 feet deep and 300 yards offshore, where it had been scuttled by the Japanese in late 1942 or early 1943. The beached Japanese transport Yamazuki Maru is in the background. Photographed by SSgt. Heiberger, of the 3rd Marine Division. Credit: NAVY. |  | Scuttled -- only Germans should do dot!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | All night they bored through the hot darkness, and jackrabbits scuttled into the lights and dashed away in long jolting leaps |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SCUTTLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 86.44% of the time. "SCUTTLED" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 86.44% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 11.86% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SCUTTLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ç ´å (Breached, Breaching, Dilapidation, Scuttling, undermine). (various references) | |
French | sabordai, sabordés, sabordées, sabordée, saborda. (various references) | |
German | ruinierte. (various references) | |
Korean | 황급히 달리ëŠ". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttledscay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SCUTTLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cutled, cuttled, scattled, scuddled, scutellum, Scuttler, skuttle, suttle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCUTTLED" (pronounced sku"tuld) |
| 5 | -u" t u l d | shuttled. |
| 4 | -t u l d | battled, belittled, bottled, chortled, disgruntled, dismantled, embattled, entitled, mottled, nettled, rattled, resettled, settled, startled, subtitled, tattled, throttled, titled, totaled, totalled, unsettled, whittled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, disheveled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tickled, tinkled, toggled, toppled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutlets, cuttled, cuttles, dulcets, scuttle. | |
-2 letters: culets, cutest, cutlet, cuttle, dulcet, educts, lusted. | |
-3 letters: celts, clued, clues, culet, cults, cutes, delts, duces, ducts, duels, duets, dulse, educt, leuds, luces, ludes, luted, lutes, scute, slued, tules. | |
-4 letters: cels, celt, clue, cuds, cued, cues, cult, cute, cuts, dels, delt, duce, duct, duel, dues, duet, dust, ecus. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-s-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: auscultated, colatitudes, ductilities, scutellated. | |
+4 letters: destructible, gesticulated. | |
+5 letters: destructively, disarticulate, documentalist, fluidextracts, sextuplicated, shuttlecocked, ultradistance. | |
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