sabotage

Etymology

From French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæbətɑʒ/

Noun

sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)

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^[1].

Verb

sabotage (third-person singular simple present sabotages, present participle sabotaging, simple 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.

See also

• terrorism

References

Anagrams

• boatages

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːboːˈtaːʒə/

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Noun

sabotage m (uncountable)

1. sabotage

Etymology

From saboter +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bɔ.taʒ/
• Homophone: sabotages
• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧tage

Noun

sabotage m (plural sabotages)

1. sabotage

Further reading

• “sabotage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sabʊˈtɑːɧ/

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Noun

sabotage n

1. sabotage