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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɑːʒ/, (less commonly) /sæ.bɒˈtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɪd͡ʒ/[1][2]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, /ˌsæb.əˈtɑʒ/[3]
Noun[edit]
sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)
- A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction
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Verb[edit]
sabotage (third-person singular simple present sabotages, present participle sabotaging, simple past and past participle sabotaged)
- To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
- The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.
- Our plans were sabotaged.
- 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- 2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42)[2], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:
- The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
deliberately destruct to prevent success
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
- ^ “sabotage”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Noun[edit]
sabotage c (singular definite sabotagen, plural indefinite sabotager)
Declension[edit]
Declension of sabotage
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | sabotage | sabotagen | sabotager | sabotagerne |
| genitive | sabotages | sabotagens | sabotagers | sabotagernes |
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Further reading[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sabotage m (uncountable)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: sabotase
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sabotage m (plural sabotages)
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: sabotatge
- → Czech: sabotáž
- → Danish: sabotage
- → Dutch: sabotage
- → English: sabotage
- → Galician: sabotaxe
- → German: Sabotage
- → Hungarian: szabotázs
- → Italian: sabotaggio
- → Polish: sabotaż
- → Portuguese: sabotagem
- → Romanian: sabotaj
- → Russian: сабота́ж (sabotáž)
- → Spanish: sabotaje
- → Swedish: sabotage
- → Turkish: sabotaj
Further reading[edit]
- “sabotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sabotage n
Declension[edit]
| Declension of sabotage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | sabotage | sabotaget | sabotage | sabotagen |
| Genitive | sabotages | sabotagets | sabotages | sabotagens |
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
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