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noun [ U ] uk / ˈsæbətɑːʒ / us. damage done intentionally to something, for example equipment or a system, that belongs to someone else, so that it cannot be used: The oil giant said it averaged 221 oil spills in recent years, because of aging equipment and sabotage. industrial / economic sabotage.
Verb They sabotaged the enemy's oil fields. The airplane crashed because it was sabotaged. The lawyer is trying to sabotage the case by creating confusion. The deal was sabotaged by an angry employee. See More
If a machine, railway line, or bridge is sabotaged, it is deliberately damaged or destroyed, for example in a war or as a protest. The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels. [be VERB -ed] Synonyms: damage, destroy, wreck, undermine More Synonyms of sabotage. Sabotage is also a noun.
He claims the animal rights group sabotaged their vehicles and trailers. to intentionally do something that stops someone from achieving what they want or stops something from developing as it should:
SABOTAGED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of sabotage 2. to damage or destroy equipment, weapons, or…. Learn more.
noun. any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute. any undermining of a cause.
Sabotage isn't very nice: It's when you ruin or disrupt something by messing up a part of it on purpose. Loosening the blades on your competitor's ice skates would definitely be considered sabotage. Sabotage comes from the French word saboter, which literally means “walk noisily.”.
sabotage something to prevent something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately. Protesters failed to sabotage the peace talks. The rise in interest rates sabotaged any chance of the firm's recovery. They had tried to sabotage our plans.
Sabotage, wilful and malicious destruction of tools, plant, machinery, materials, etc., by discontented workmen or strikers. The term came into use after the great French railway strike of 1912, when the strikers cut the shoes ( sabots) holding the railway lines. Brewer's Dictionary Phrase & Fable. 1930.
the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transportation, machines, etc. to prevent an enemy from using them, or to protest about something an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
