- (of a vessel) deliberately sunk, often by opening seacocks or making openings in the hull: It is important to ensure that the scuttled vessel is suitably weighted and negatively buoyant so it will sink rapidly and remain stable on the bottom.
- abandoned, dropped, cut, or thwarted, as a hope, plan, program, etc.: In the fallout over the scuttled deal, two executives were fired for ethical violations related to the negotiations.
- the simple past tense and past participle of scuttle1.
