'Sabotage' definitions:
Definition of 'sabotage'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken]
Definition of 'Sabotage'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'sabotage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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