Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet SCOTCHED

Definition av SCOTCHED

1. böjningsform av scotch
2. perfektparticip av scotch

Exempel på hur man kan använda SCOTCHED i en mening

• Although her family were able to persuade her to break with Newbattle, the royal match was scotched by the king's advisors, particularly John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.
• In 1910, rumors surfaced that United States Motor Company was going to merge with General Motors, but Briscoe scotched the rumors by stating that any attempt to integrate General Motors into USMC would create chaos.
• One explanation is the meaning "to cut or score" for the word "scotch", as the confection must be cut into pieces, or "scotched", before hardening.
• This release was scotched when Kember caught wind of the fact that Mudhoney had fitted "Revolution" with somewhat irreverent lyrics about methadone suppositories.
• At Cambridge, Dickins continued to support Celtic Studies, creating a University Lectureship for Nora Chadwick in 1950 and in 1955 making "an eloquent case to the General Board for the establishment of a Professorship of Celtic in his Department, so as to put Cambridge on an equal footing with Oxford in this respect" (though the latter proposal was scotched in the face of "aggressive opposition" from Whitelock).
• Samuel Griffiths, handicapper and turf historian, later scotched the story as a fabrication by the bookmaker Joseph Bragge "Leviathan" Slack, who paid out £500 each to Thomas Bailey (Craig's son-in-law) and John Day for the bet they placed with him, and concocted the story for the extra publicity.
• Samuel Griffiths, handicapper and turf historian, scotched the story as having been fabricated by the bookmaker Joseph Bragge "Leviathan" Slack.
• the luckless Lucky-Peter's Journey (Sadler's Wells Opera at the Coliseum, 1969), after Strindberg's picaresque play, scotched despite much good music by what many considered a staggeringly inept production.

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