different between sabotage vs saboteur

English

Etymology

From French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæb?t??/

Noun

sabotage (usually uncountable, plural sabotages)

1. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
2. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources.

Translations

Verb

sabotage (third-person singular simple present sabotages, present participle sabotaging, simple past and past participle sabotaged)

1. To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

Translations

See also

• terrorism

References

Anagrams

• boatages

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabotage.

Noun

sabotage c (singular definite sabotagen, plural indefinite sabotager)

1. sabotage

Declension

Related terms

• sabotere
• sabotør

Further reading

• “sabotage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “sabotage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?bo??ta???/
• Hyphenation: sa?bo?ta?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

sabotage m (uncountable)

1. sabotage

Related terms

• saboteren
• saboteur

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sabotase

French

Etymology

From saboter +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.b?.ta?/
• Homophone: sabotages
• Hyphenation: sa?bo?tage

Noun

sabotage m (plural sabotages)

1. sabotage

Descendants

Further reading

• “sabotage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabotage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sab??t???/

Noun

sabotage n

1. sabotage

Declension

Related terms

• sabotera
• sabotör

Further reading

• sabotage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French saboteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæb??t??(?)/, /?sæb??t??(?)/

Noun

saboteur (plural saboteurs)

1. A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of his/her enemy.

   Synonym: sabotageur

Translations

See also

• sabotage
• terrorism

Anagrams

• U-boaters, bears out, outbears

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French saboteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.bo??tø?r/
• Hyphenation: sa?bo?teur
• Rhymes: -ø?r

Noun

saboteur m (plural saboteurs)

1. saboteur

Related terms

• sabotage
• saboteren

French

Etymology

saboter (“to sabotage”) +? -eur, from sabot (“clog”) (where mill workers would throw their wooden clogs into the machinery to make it halt or break down.)

Pronunciation

Noun

saboteur m (plural saboteurs, feminine saboteuse)

1. saboteur

Descendants

• ? Dutch: saboteur
• ? English: saboteur

Further reading

• “saboteur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bouteras