sabotage
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsæ.bɒˌtɑːʒ//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ//
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.
Substantiv
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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.
Herkunft
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Verb
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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.
The Hedjaz Railway is best known for its connections to T. E. Lawrence, whose fame as "El Orens", the railway wrecker, spread quickly throughout Arabia. He arrived at Yenbo in December, 1916, and immediately started his campaign to sabotage the railway, but to keep it sufficiently in working order to allow supplies to reach Medina.
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.
Formen
- Plural
- sabotages
- Präteritum
- sabotaged
- Partizip II
- sabotaged
- Partizip I
- sabotaging
- 3. Person Singular
- sabotages
sabotage · A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion,…
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