transcription, транскрипция: [ sæbətɑ:ʒ ]
( sabotages, sabotaging, sabotaged)
1.
If a machine, railway line, or bridge is sabotaged , it is deliberately damaged or destroyed, for example in a war or as a protest.
The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
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Sabotage is also a noun.
The bombing was a spectacular act of sabotage.
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2.
If someone sabotages a plan or a meeting, they deliberately prevent it from being successful.
He accused the opposition of trying to sabotage the election...
VERB : V n