sabotage

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɑːʒ/, (less commonly) /sæ.bɒˈtɑːʒ/^[1][2]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, /ˌsæb.əˈtɑʒ/^[2]

sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)

1. 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.

• ecotage
• self-sabotage

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.

   Our plans were sabotaged.

   • 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 166-167:

     The Hedjaz Railway is best known for its connections to T. E. Lawrence, whose fame as "El Orens", the railway wrecker, spread quickly throughout Arabia. He arrived at Yenbo in December, 1916, and immediately started his campaign to sabotage the railway, but to keep it sufficiently in working order to allow supplies to reach Medina.

   • 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.

• self-sabotage

• terrorism

• boatages

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

sabotage c (singular definite sabotagen, plural indefinite sabotager)

1. sabotage

• sabotere
• sabotør

• “sabotage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “sabotage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

• IPA^(key): /saːboːˈtaːʒə/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧ta‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

sabotage m (uncountable)

1. sabotage

• saboteren
• saboteur

• → Indonesian: sabotase

From saboter +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /sa.bɔ.taʒ/

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• Homophone: sabotages
• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧tage

sabotage m (plural sabotages)

1. sabotage

• “sabotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

• IPA^(key): /sabʊˈtɑːɧ/

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sabotage n

1. sabotage

• sabotera
• sabotör

• sabotage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)