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 * > Name: || Michael Watkins ||
 * > Word: || Scuttle ||
 * > Source: || //The Savage Wars of Peace//, Max Boot, "Commercial Power", A Pack of Boys, Page 18. ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || To Destroy, wreck, or scrap ||
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle?show=2&t=1321034316 ||
 * > Context Sentences: || Bainbridge called a meeting of his officers and they unanimously decided to surrender rather than die fighting. Before giving up the ship, Bainbridge ordered holes to be drilled into the bottom to scuttle her. Then the 307men and officers were ferried ashore, stripped of everything save underwear, and presented before a gloating pasha. ||

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