Sabotage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations, as by civilians or enemy agents in time of war.
  • n. Treacherous action to defeat or hinder a cause or an endeavor; deliberate subversion.
  • v. To commit sabotage against.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
  • v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. Scamped work.
  • n. Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
  • n. any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged
  • v. destroy property or hinder normal operations
  • Verb Form
    sabotaged    sabotages    sabotaging   
    Cross Reference
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