sabotage
/ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/US/ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/
sabotage noun: 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.
Noun
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.
Verb
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.
sabotage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sabotage in Hindi
- deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction
- तोड़-फोड़ toṛ-phoṛ, अंतर्ध्वंस antardhvans
sabotage in Tamil
- சதித் திட்டம், நாச வேலை, கீழறுப்பு
sabotage in Urdu
- deliberate action of subversion, obstruction, disruption, destruction
- تَخْرِیب کاری taxrīb kārī, سَبُو تاژ sabū tāź, سَبوتاژ sabotāź
sabotage in Bengali
- sabotage
- নাশকতা naśokota
- sabotage; subversion
- অন্তর্ঘাত ontorghat
More languagesFewer languages
- sabotage in Malayalam
- അട്ടിമറി aṭṭimaṟi, അട്ടിമറിക്കുക aṭṭimaṟikkuka
- sabotage in Kannada
- ಬೇಕೆಂದೇ ಕೆಡಿಸು, ಹಾಳುಮಾಡು
- sabotage in Punjabi
- ਤੋਡ਼ਫੋਡ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- sabotage in Pashto
- سبوتاژ sbotãž, خرابکاري xarābkārí, ورانکاري wrānkārí
- sabotage in Tagalog
- sabotahe, manabotahe
- sabotage in Arabic
- أَعْمَال تَخْرِيبِيَّة ʔaʕmāl taḵrībiyya, تَخْرِيب taḵrīb
- sabotage in Malay
- sabotaj
- sabotage in Indonesian
- sabotase
- sabotage in Thai
- วินาศกรรม wí-nâat-sà-gam
- sabotage in Vietnamese
- sự phá hoại, phá hoại, phá hại, lãn công
Examples of sabotage in a sentence
- He revealed himself to be a cold-blooded calculator out to sabotage his colleagues.
- In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer.
- But there are plenty of ways you could be sabotaging that savings.
Forms of sabotage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sabotages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sabotages |
| present participle | sabotaging |
| past participle | sabotaged |
| past | sabotaged |
Origin of sabotage
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Words formed from sabotage
Phrases with sabotage
Questions about sabotage
- What does sabotage mean?
- Sabotage means 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.
- What is sabotage in Hindi?
- Sabotage in Hindi is तोड़-फोड़ (toṛ-phoṛ), अंतर्ध्वंस (antardhvans). See Sabotage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sabotage?
- Sabotage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sabotage?
- Sabotage is pronounced /ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sabotage?
- The plural of sabotage is sabotages.
Words near sabotage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sabotage (page history and authors); sabotage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অন্তর্ঘাত (Bengali) (page history and authors); അട്ടിമറി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); sabotage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sabotage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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