# sabotage
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/, /ˈsæ.bɒˌtɑːʒ/, (less commonly) /sæ.bɒˈtɑːʒ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, /ˌsæb.əˈtɑʒ/

### Noun

sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)
* A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

#### Derived terms

* ecotage
* self-sabotage

#### Translations
### Verb

sabotage (third-person singular simple present sabotages, present participle sabotaging, simple past and past participle sabotaged)
* To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
    The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.
    Our plans were sabotaged.
** 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian‎:Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
** 2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42)‎, archived from the original on 19 July 2022:The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.

#### Derived terms

* self-sabotage

#### Translations
### See also

* terrorism

### References

* ↑ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
* 1 2 “sabotage”, in Collins English Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* boatages

## Danish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

### Noun

sabotage c (singular definite sabotagen, plural indefinite sabotager)
* sabotage

#### Related terms

* sabotere
* sabotør

### Further reading

* “sabotage” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “sabotage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saːboːˈtaːʒə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧ta‧ge
* Rhymes: -aːʒə

### Noun

sabotage m (uncountable)
* sabotage

#### Related terms

* saboteren
* saboteur

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: sabotase

## French
### Etymology

From saboter +‎ -age.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sa.bɔ.taʒ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: sabotages
* Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧tage

### Noun

sabotage m (plural sabotages)
* sabotage

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: sabotatge
* → Czech: sabotáž
* → Danish: sabotage
* → Dutch: sabotage
* → English: sabotage
* → Galician: sabotaxe
* → German: Sabotage
* → Hungarian: szabotázs
* → Italian: sabotaggio
* → Polish: sabotaż
* → Portuguese: sabotagem
* → Romanian: sabotaj
* → Russian: сабота́ж (sabotáž)
* → Spanish: sabotaje
* → Swedish: sabotage
* → Turkish: sabotaj

### Further reading

* “sabotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sabʊˈtɑːɧ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sabotage n
* sabotage

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | sabotage | sabotages |
| singular | definite | sabotaget | sabotagets |
| plural | indefinite | sabotage | sabotages |
| plural | definite | sabotagen | sabotagens |

#### Related terms

* sabotera
* sabotör

### Further reading

* sabotage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)