I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre[.]
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Scupper
//ˈskʌp.ɚ//
Synonyms for "scupper" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (23)
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12 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- шпигат noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Catalan
2 entries- dull noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- embornal noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 排水口 noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Czech
4 entries- palubní odtok noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- pohřbít verb (thwart, destroy)
- zhatit verb (thwart, destroy)
- zmařit verb (thwart, destroy)
Danish
2 entries- lænseport noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- spygat noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Dutch
3 entries- spuigat noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- dwarsbomen verb (thwart, destroy)
- vernietigen verb (thwart, destroy)
Finnish
4 entries- nieluaukko noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- spyygatti noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- valumisaukko noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- valumisaukko noun (architecture: drainage hole in a wall or parapet)
French
2 entries- dalot noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- saboter verb (thwart, destroy)
German
4 entries- Speigat noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- Speigatt noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- ruinieren verb (thwart, destroy)
- zerstören verb (thwart, destroy)
Greek
1 entries- μπούνια noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Hebrew
1 entries- אָבִיק noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Icelandic
2 entries- lensport noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- spýjurenna noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Italian
2 entries- avversare verb (thwart, destroy)
- bruciare verb (thwart, destroy)
Norman
1 entries- dalot noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spygatt noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بالطهلامق verb (thwart, destroy)
Polish
4 entries- luka odpływowa noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- luka odpływowa noun (architecture: drainage hole in a wall or parapet)
- niweczyć verb (thwart, destroy)
- rujnować verb (thwart, destroy)
Portuguese
1 entries- buzinote noun (architecture: drainage hole in a wall or parapet)
Russian
4 entries- дренажное отве́рстие noun (architecture: drainage hole in a wall or parapet)
- шпига́т noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- губи́ть verb (thwart, destroy)
- погубить verb (thwart, destroy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- drenažni otvor noun (architecture: drainage hole in a wall or parapet)
- lakomica noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- potopiti verb (thwart, destroy)
- torpedirati verb (thwart, destroy)
Spanish
1 entries- imbornal noun (nautical: drainage hole)
Swedish
4 entries- spygatt noun (nautical: drainage hole)
- kullkasta verb (thwart, destroy)
- omintetgöra verb (thwart, destroy)
- stjälpa verb (thwart, destroy)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The bad media coverage scuppered his chances of being elected.
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["]The only chance was to get the guns and try a rescue. Of course they may scupper them at once in revenge.["]
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This is the face of American exceptionalism[…] threatening to scupper both the court and, failing that, UN peace-keeping operations in Bosnia and anywhere else the US might have forces deployed on such work.
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