sabotage
verb/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sabotage | /ˈsæbətɑːʒ/ /ˈsæbətɑːʒ/ |
| he / she / it sabotages | /ˈsæbətɑːʒɪz/ /ˈsæbətɑːʒɪz/ |
| past simple sabotaged | /ˈsæbətɑːʒd/ /ˈsæbətɑːʒd/ |
| past participle sabotaged | /ˈsæbətɑːʒd/ /ˈsæbətɑːʒd/ |
| -ing form sabotaging | /ˈsæbətɑːʒɪŋ/ /ˈsæbətɑːʒɪŋ/ |
- sabotage something to damage or destroy something deliberately to prevent an enemy from using it or to protest about something
- The main electricity supply had been sabotaged by the rebels.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- attempt to
- try to
- sabotage something to prevent something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately
- Protesters failed to sabotage the peace talks.
- The rise in interest rates sabotaged any chance of the firm's recovery.
- They had tried to sabotage our plans.
- His speech was calculated to sabotage our efforts to reach a solution to the crisis.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- attempt to
- try to
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.
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