Sabotage

Quick meaning: Sabotage is a noun meaning To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

Meaning

To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

More Meanings

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.

Example Sentences

Our plans were sabotaged.

The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• sabotages
• sabotaging
• sabotaged

Synonyms for sabotage

Depending on context, synonyms include undermine, subvert, counteract, countermine, weaken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undermine, subvert, counteract, weaken, countermine, subversive.

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