Sabotage | Mean of sabotage in English Dictionary

/ˈsæbəˌtɑːʒ/

• Noun
• the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does not work correctly
1. Angry workers were responsible for the sabotage of the machines.
2. terrorists engaging in (deliberate) acts of sabotage
3. Officials have not yet ruled out sabotage as a possible cause of the crash.
4. industrial sabotage
• Verb
• to destroy or damage (something) deliberately so that it does not work correctly
1. They sabotaged the enemy's oil fields.
2. The airplane crashed because it was sabotaged.
• to cause the failure of (something) deliberately
1. The lawyer is trying to sabotage the case by creating confusion.
2. The deal was sabotaged by an angry employee.
3. Bad weather sabotaged [=ruined] our plans.