scuttle's Usage Examples:

scuttled around just under the water.

The ship had there been scuttled to put out a fire onboard, by the port authority, acting upon their own judgment, but with the assent of the master.

kindlealso broke up pieces of real coal, logs and kindling for the fires, log baskets and coal scuttles.

These creatures would have scuttled around just under the water.

scuttle back into the sea.

Barbe, on the homeward voyage, had been seized by the notorious pirate, and scuttled near the Nash Sands.

Stars of the show include magnificent mantises, terrific tarantulas, crawling cockroaches and scuttling scorpions!scuttlet surrender talks were going on the Germans abandoned ship and scuttling charges detonated her magazine, ending the last of Spee's squadron.

Dive on the wrecks of the scuttled German High Sea Fleet.

Fishing for the camera, I scuttled off across the ridge to await the sunrise.

And he scuttled up the moonlight floor, Where and owl glided over the shadowy trees.

Buxhowden pursues us--we scuttle.

scuttleally found scuttling about in vegetation or in the surface layers of bottom sediments, occasionally in open water.

Synonyms:

scamper, crab, run, scurry, skitter,

Antonyms:

earned run, malfunction, arrive, ebb, stand still,