sabotage

See also Sabotage

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French sabotage (verb is from the noun)

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

Deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction

Arabic: اعمال تخريبية (’aʕmāl taxribíyya) f. Catalan: sabotatge (ca) m. Czech: sabotáž (cs) f. Dutch: sabotage (nl) Finnish: sabotaasi (fi) French: sabotage (fr) m. German: Sabotage (de) f. Greek: δολιοφθορά (el) (doliofthorá) f. Hebrew: חבלה f. (Habala) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: szabotázs (hu) Icelandic: skemmdarverk (is) n. Italian: sabotaggio (it)

Japanese: please add this translation if you can Polish: sabotaż (pl) m. Portuguese: sabotagem (pt) f. Romanian: sabotaj (ro) n., sabotare (ro) f., subminare (ro) f. Russian: саботаж (ru) (sabotáž) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сабота́жа (sh) f. Roman: sabotáža (sh) f. Slovene: sabotáža (sl) f. Spanish: sabotaje (es) m. Swahili: susia (sw) Thai: วินาศกรรม (wínâat gam) Turkish: sabotaj (tr)

Act with intent to injure

Catalan: sabotatge (ca) m. Dutch: sabotage (nl) Finnish: sabotaasi (fi) German: Sabotage (de) f. Greek: δολιοφθορά (el) (doliofthorá) f. Polish: sabotaż (pl) m.

Russian: диверсия (ru) (divérsija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сабота́жа (sh) f. Roman: sabotáža (sh) f. Swahili: susia (sw)

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Mandarin: 阴谋破坏 (yīnmóu pòhuài) Esperanto: sabotado French: sabotage m. Interlingua: sabotage

Norwegian: sabotasje Spanish: sabotaje Swedish: sabotage Vietnamese: phá hoại Volapük: sabotaj

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

Translations

deliberate destruction to prevent success

Czech: sabotovat (cs) Dutch: saboteren (nl) Esperanto: saboti (eo) Finnish: sabotoida (fi) French: saboter (fr) German: sabotieren (de) Italian: sabotare (it)

Polish: sabotować (pl) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: саботи́рати (sh) Roman: sabotírati (sh) Spanish: sabotear (es) Turkish: sabote etmek (tr)

See also

• terrorism

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French

Etymology

saboter +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sa.bɔ.taʒ/, X-SAMPA: /sa.bO.taZ/
• Homophone: sabotages
• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧tage

Noun

sabotage m. (plural sabotages)

1. sabotage

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

sabotage n.

1. sabotage

Declension

Declension of sabotage

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	sabotage	sabotaget
genitive	sabotages	sabotagets