Synonyms of scuttled

scuttled

verb

past tense of scuttle

as in scurried

to proceed or move quickly

mice scuttling across the barn floor to escape the cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scurried
• hurried
• sped
• raced
• rushed
• flew
• drove
• trotted
• traveled
• jumped
• chased
• zipped
• scooted
• ran
• stepped
• darted
• buzzed
• blew
• dashed
• blasted
• rammed
• bolted
• ripped
• tore
• hustled
• whirled
• hurled
• hastened
• bowled
• zoomed
• careened
• hurtled
• rustled
• jogged
• blazed
• bustled
• bundled
• whisked
• rocketed
• breezed
• motored
• barreled
• nipped
• pelted
• coursed
• careered
• cracked (on)
• humped
• hied
• shot
• bombed
• beat it
• galloped
• jetted
• flitted
• belted
• stepped on it
• cannonballed
• scampered
• hared
• highballed
• made tracks
• shook a leg
• streaked
• sprinted
• scudded
• hotfooted (it)
• scuffled
• stampeded
• got a move on
• accelerated
• whizzed
• beetled
• overtook
• quickened
• stepped out
• outpaced
• outstripped
• outran
• caught up
• arrowed
• beelined
• fast-forwarded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crept
• crawled
• dragged
• poked
• lingered
• poked
• lagged
• hung (around or out)
• loitered
• strolled
• shuffled
• sauntered
• ambled
• dallied
• tarried
• lumbered
• dawdled
• plodded
• slowed (down or up)
• decelerated
• dillydallied

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scuttled

After their decisive vote scuttled Johnson’s initial spending plan, the mayor and aldermen must now figure out how to make the city’s budget pencil out. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

That was scuttled after the Houthis launched cowardly and deadly attacks on civilian targets in Riyadh and other Saudi Arabian cities. — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2026

Then a Latino legislator stood up and suggested that people might have been speaking Spanish in Arizona in 1912, and the proposal was quickly scuttled. — Michael Kiefer, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2026

The account specifies that the smugglers scuttled the ship to evade the law. — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

The second was about how the no-new-tax pledge scuttled the mission of reducing the budget deficit—a key goal of Darman’s. — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

The transaction was scuttled two months later after OpenAI shut down Sora, which had drawn a host of legal complaints alleging copyright violation. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

But the defense of those titles last season was scuttled by injuries, and now the Panthers have seen two key players injured on their four-game West Coast trip to start this season. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Harris had a deal with CNN not too long ago to contribute to CNN+, an ambitious streaming outlet that was scuttled within just weeks of launch. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026