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sabotage

noun
/ˈsæ.bəˌtɑːʒ/UK/ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/US

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.

  1. derived from sabotage

Definitions

  1. A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or…

    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.

  2. 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 neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sabotage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sabotage02subversion03subverted04subvert05undermining06undermined07undermine

A definitional loop anchored at sabotage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sabotage

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA