noun, verb
noun [U] the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc. to prevent an enemy from using them or to protest about sth:
an act of economic / military / industrial sabotage * Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
verb [VN]
1 to damage, destroy or spoil sth deliberately to prevent an enemy from using it or to protest about sth:
The main electricity supply had been sabotaged by the rebels. * Protesters failed to sabotage the peace talks.
2 to make sth no longer possible or successful:
The rise in interest rates sabotaged any chance of the firm's recovery.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sabotage is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sabotage appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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