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sabotage English

Meaning sabotage meaning

What does sabotage mean?
Definitions in simple English

sabotage Verb

— If a building, event, etc. are sabotaged, they are damaged so that they can't work properly. Her rival sabotaged the concert.

sabotage

— noun a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged — verb destroy property or hinder normal operations The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war

Synonyms sabotage synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sabotage?

sabotage English » English

undermine subvert weaken counteract wreck countermine wrecking overturn diversion walkout vandalism undercut torpedo subversive destruction strike work strike stoppage stay out slow-down tactics sleeper cell sap obstructiveness obstruct job action industrial action incapacitation impairment go-slow go out disorganization discomposure direct action destruction destroy decapitate chaos break up betrayal betray

Topics sabotage topics

What do people use sabotage to talk about?
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Rebel against authority

Conjugation sabotage conjugation

How do you conjugate sabotage?

sabotage · verb

Examples sabotage examples

How do I use sabotage in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This is sabotage.
Sabotage!
The prosperity gospel is a sabotage against Christianity.

Movie subtitles

You can be involved in sabotage.
Real sabotage.
The fire in the Stewart Aircraft Works, in which one man was killed, many injured, and half a million dollars worth of damage caused, has been definitely set down to sabotage.
But there's only one reason why a man commits sabotage.
Something's gonna happen at the launching, sabotage.
The Warsaw underground striking back. sabotage, destruction.
It's sabotage!
Here were trained hundreds of recruits for the Abwehr Germany's super-secret espionage and sabotage service.
Not one single act of enemy-directed sabotage was perpetrated within the United States nor was one major war secret stolen.
Sabotage und disorder, I can understand that.
You see a sabotage in everything.
The front is expecting airplanes and all we're doing here is a sabotage.
The thing is. he was plotting to sabotage the war effort.
Is it sabotage?
Bad job of sabotage.
But there's only one reason why a man commits sabotage. That's worse than murder.
Sabotage. Where'd you get your information?
And the sabotage is out of control. yet only 50 were executed.
So, you carry on this sabotage trick to use up our fuel supply.
The bridge over the Gartempe was blown up last night. - Sabotage?
This gas was loaded with wax. Sabotage.
I'll explain why; the men who prepare these attacks and acts of sabotage against the German armed forces are violating the rights of an occupying power, guaranteed by international treaties.
Now that the town is rid of its worst Black reactionary enemies of the people will not sabotage social progress!
These men plotting to sabotage German armed forces are violating the rights of an occupying power guaranteed by international treaties.
Sabotage!
The general disorder in aircraft production is so widespread...that it is possible to blame sabotage in some cases.
Evidence of sabotage is sufficient reason.
On behalf of the People, Willi Naumann is sentenced to death for sabotage.
It is sabotage or negligence?
Not my jokes. Neither the alleged sabotage.
Karl.do you believe it was sabotage?
At 18:00, bring me the culprit no matter if sabotage or negligence or sign this statement. resigning from your department.
Besides, are you sure it's sabotage?

News and current affairs

But the real risk to oil is open hostilities or sabotage of oil installations.
This time around the price would certainly go higher because the risks including sabotage are much more widespread.
So the talks may have been revealed not because they had advanced sufficiently, but because someone wanted to sabotage them.
Such tactics are aimed at confronting an enemy that is armed with the most advanced weapons systems, but is vulnerable to sabotage and asymmetrical attack, even latter-day guerilla warfare.
The world is only just beginning to see glimpses of cyber war - in the denial-of-service attacks that accompanied the conventional war in Georgia in 2008, or the recent sabotage of Iranian centrifuges.
This was an intolerable affront, to which the elite responded with economic sabotage rather than military action.
In a world where nuclear proliferation has rendered global conventional war unthinkable, economic sanctions and sabotage are likely to play a large role in twenty-first-century geopolitics.
In country after country--France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere--farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.
Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.
They fall easily into violence, theft, and sabotage.
The movement's remarkable ability to sabotage itself is not new.
What this calls for, above all, is prevention of nuclear proliferation (beginning with Iran), whether through diplomacy and sanctions, or, if need be, through sabotage and military attacks.
It would also require countries to protect nuclear facilities against acts of sabotage, which could have consequences similar to those of nuclear accidents.
In short, the parliamentary barons of the governing party buttressed by the ban on seeking opposition support can sabotage legislative projects they dont like.
Moreover, the information revolution enables individuals to perpetrate sabotage with unprecendented speed and scope.
Rafsanjani was at least partly hostage to hardline opponents keen to sabotage his foreign-policy initiatives with precisely timed acts of terror in France, Germany, and Argentina.
Many countries have instituted effective measures to prevent the theft, sabotage, or illegal transfer of nuclear or other radioactive material, and security at many nuclear facilities has been improved.
It would also make nuclear trafficking a criminal offense and require signatories to cooperate on improving national systems of physical protection and minimizing the consequences of sabotage.
The arrest warrant for al-Bashir should not be allowed to spur further attempts by his government to sabotage the CPA and the fragile process leading to the 2011 referendum.
The Financial Times recommends working out a Plan B here and now, which would sabotage the political efforts to conclude the Doha Round.
But the continuing US boycott of Hamas reinforces the logic of those who are trying to sabotage the negotiations.
Once in power, the DPJ will immediately confront the massive bureaucracy and entrenched mandarins, which usually sabotage any efforts at administrative reform that threatens their power and vested interests.
Many Chinese, however, came to view pro-Tibetan protests in Paris, London, San Francisco, Delhi, and elsewhere as an effort to sabotage the Olympics and keep China down after almost two centuries of perceived national humiliation.
So nearly 2,000 weapons of mass destruction still face each other on high alert, maximizing the prospect of a catastrophe through human or system error or cyber sabotage.

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