sabotage

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈsæbətɑʒ/

Noun

sabotage (uncountable)

1. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
2. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources.

Translations

• French: sabotage
• German: Sabotage
• Italian: sabotaggio
• Portuguese: sabotagem
• Russian: вредительство
• Spanish: sabotaje

Translations

• German: Sabotage
• Portuguese: sabotagem
• Russian: диве́рсия
• Spanish: sabotaje

Verb

sabotage (sabotages, present participle sabotaging; past and past participle sabotaged)

1. To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

   The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.

   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ↗", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

Translations

• French: saboter
• German: sabotieren
• Italian: sabotare
• Portuguese: sabotar
• Russian: саботировать
• Spanish: sabotear

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