sabotage
See also: Sabotage
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 | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sabotage | sabotagen | sabotager | sabotagerne |
genitive | sabotages | sabotagens | sabotagers | sabotagernes |
Related terms edit
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 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sabotage | sabotaget | sabotage | sabotagen |
Genitive | sabotages | sabotagets | sabotages | sabotagens |