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

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

The rationale was that any war Israel fought would inflame popular anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab and Muslim world, scuttling the Abraham Accords as Arab governments would withdraw out of fear of backlash. — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 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