SABOTAGE

I. noun Etymology: French, from saboter to clatter with sabots, botch, ~, from sabot Date: 1910 destruction of an employer's property (as tools or materials) or the hindering of manufacturing by discontented workers, destructive or obstructive action carried on by a civilian or enemy agent to hinder a nation's war effort, 3. an act or process tending to hamper or hurt, deliberate subversion, II. transitive verb (-taged; -taging) Date: 1913 to practice ~ on