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Sabotage

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Table of contents

1 English

1.1 Etymology
1.2 Noun

1.2.1 See also
1.2.2 Translations

English

Etymology

from French, where mill workers would throw their wooden shoes into the machinery to make it halt or break down.

Noun

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
The name of an early Black Sabbath album.
The name of a British film directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1936.

Translations

Catalan: sabotatge
Chinese: 阴谋破坏
Ekspreso: sabotaje
Interlingua: sabotage
Russian: [[саботаж]
Spanish: sabotaje
Volapük: sabotaj

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WordNet Definitions

The noun "sabotage" has one sense:

sabotage

The verb "sabotage" has one sense:

sabotage

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