What part of speech is scuttle?

Scuttle can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

Parts of speech

1. scuttle is a verb, present, 1st person singular of scuttle (infinitive).
2. scuttle is a verb (infinitive).
3. scuttle is a noun, singular of scuttles.

Inflections

Verb

Infinitive

Present

Simple Past

Past Participle

Gerund
(to) scuttle

scuttle / scuttles

scuttled

scuttled

scuttling

Infinitive: (to) scuttle
Present: scuttle / scuttles
Simple Past: scuttled
Past Participle: (have) scuttled
Gerund: scuttling

Noun

Singular

Plural
scuttle

scuttles

Singular: scuttle
Plural: scuttles

What does scuttle mean?

Definitions

Verb
scuttle - To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
scuttle - To move hastily, to scurry.
Noun
scuttle - container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
scuttle - an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

Examples of scuttle

#		Sentence
1.	verb	Crawl forward is done much more agilely - scuttle like a cockroach!

Sentence
verb
Crawl forward is done much more agilely - scuttle like a cockroach!

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