Synonyms of scuttling

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noun

as in wrecking

Related Words

• wrecking
• wreck
• shipwreck
• shipwrecking
• wreckage
• sinking
• stranding
• grounding
• beaching
• foundering

Dissimilar Words

• recovery
• salvage
• salvaging

scuttling

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verb

present participle of scuttle

as in scurrying

to proceed or move quickly

mice scuttling across the barn floor to escape the cats

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scurrying
• hurrying
• rushing
• flying
• speeding
• racing
• traveling
• trotting
• zipping
• driving
• chasing
• jumping
• running
• buzzing
• darting
• scooting
• stepping
• blowing
• dashing
• blasting
• tearing
• ripping
• ramming
• whirling
• zooming
• bolting
• hurtling
• rustling
• barreling
• bowling
• hurling
• hastening
• blazing
• careening
• hustling
• careering
• shooting
• bundling
• pelting
• jogging
• haring
• humping
• rocketing
• bustling
• whisking
• nipping
• breezing
• coursing
• motoring
• galloping
• cracking (on)
• jetting
• belting
• scampering
• flitting
• bombing
• cannonballing
• hying
• beating it
• highballing
• scudding
• stepping on it
• getting a move on
• stampeding
• making tracks
• scuffling
• sprinting
• whizzing
• shaking a leg
• hotfooting (it)
• streaking
• accelerating
• beetling
• overtaking
• outrunning
• quickening
• stepping out
• outpacing
• outstripping
• catching up
• beelining
• arrowing
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creeping
• crawling
• poking
• dragging
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• poking
• lagging
• shuffling
• dawdling
• loitering
• strolling
• sauntering
• ambling
• dallying
• lumbering
• plodding
• tarrying
• decelerating
• slowing (down or up)
• dillydallying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scuttling

Verb

Being blamed for Japan’s next recession or scuttling the Nikkei 225 Stock Average’s greatest bull run since the 1980s is the last thing Team Ueda wants. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

The court complaint against the utilities commission and the California Attorney General’s office asks for a court order declaring that California cannot stop AT&T from scuttling landlines. — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 17 June 2026

Downstairs, a styling session for the fall 2026 collection; up here, on the fourth floor, almost every inch of space is taken by patternmakers, bolts of fabric, designers scuttling about, and racks and more racks of clothes. — Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026

Paramount cliched its $31-a-share in cash merger for WBD on February 27, scuttling Warner’s previous agreement with Netflix. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026

Passengers were abandoning them, like rats scuttling off a sinking ship, and people stood on the sidewalks, looking at their phones, or looking at the city, frowning, desperate. — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026

They're carried around by giant mechanical spiders, sometimes seen scuttling through the bowels of Jabba's Palace. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026

Artificial reefs, created by scuttling ships, sinking oil rigs, or dropping rubble into the sea, have long been known to improve aquatic life, so perhaps these findings are unsurprising. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025

Pro tip Tack on a night at the Balmoral prior to the trip to avoid any travel snafus scuttling your voyage, and perhaps a few more on the back end to allow proper time to reacclimate. — Jake Emen, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2025