scupper
verb (British English, informal)- scupper something
to cause somebody/something to fail synonym foil使泡汤;使成泡影 The residents' protests scuppered his plans for developing the land. 居民的抗议使他开发这片土地的计划泡了汤。 Their chances of winning were scuppered by injury. 他们获胜的机会因受伤而破灭。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryScupper is used with these nouns as the object:- chance
- deal
- plan
- …
Word Originlate 19th cent. (as military slang in the sense ‘kill, especially in an ambush’): of unknown origin.