[VN] to stop sth from happening; to take action to end sth:
Plans for a merger have been scotched. * Rumours that he had fled the country were promptly scotched by his wife.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scotch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scotch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scotch is tagged as verb.
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