Word.ws English Dictionary

sabotaging

sabotaging is the present participle and gerund of sabotage.

Meaning of sabotage

Verb

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.

See all 2 meanings of sabotage

Forms of sabotaging

alternative misspellingsabatouging

Questions about sabotaging

What is sabotaging the present participle and gerund of?
Sabotaging is the present participle and gerund of sabotage.

Words near sabotaging in the dictionary

  1. sabotager
  2. sabotagers
  3. sabotages
  4. sabotageur
  5. sabotageurs
  6. sabotaging
  7. saboted
  8. saboteur
  9. saboteurs
  10. saboteuse
  11. saboteuses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sabotaging (page history and authors); sabotage (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sabotaging.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sabotaging. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.