Sabotage \Sa`bo`tage"\, n. [F.]
1.
(a) Scamped work.
(b) Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's
property or injury to his interests by workmen during
labor troubles.
2. 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.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sabotage
n : a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which
equipment is damaged
v : destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The
Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
[syn: undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert,
weaken]
WordNet (r) 2.0
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "sabotage":
baffle, balk, bankruptcy, blast, block, bouleversement, brave,
break up, breakage, breakdown, bugger, challenge, checkmate,
circumvent, collapse, confound, confront, contravene, convulsion,
counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crack-up, cripple,
crippling, cross, damage, dash, de-energize, debilitate, defeat,
defy, destroy, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disable,
disablement, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disenable,
dish, disrepair, disrupt, downfall, drain, elude, encroachment,
enfeeble, fall, flummox, foil, frustrate, hamper, hamstring, harm,
hinder, hobbling, honeycomb, hors de combat, hurt, hurting,
impairment, inactivate, incapacitate, incapacitation, infringement,
injury, inroad, kibosh, knock the chocks, lame, loss, maim,
maiming, mayhem, mine, mischief, mutilation, nonplus, obstruct,
overthrow, overturn, perplex, prostration, put, queer,
queer the works, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sap, scathe, scotch,
sickening, spike, spoil, spoiling, stonewall, stump, subversion,
subversiveness, subvert, thwart, treachery, treason, undermine,
undermining, unfit, upheaval, upset, weaken, weakening, wing,
wreck, wreckage, wrecking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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