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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsæb.əˌtɑːʒ/^[1]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, /ˌsæb.əˈtɑʒ/^[1]

名詞

sabotage (usually uncountable, 複数形 sabotages)

1. A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (または something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

派生語

• ecotage
• self-sabotage

動詞

sabotage (三人称単数 現在形 sabotages, 現在分詞 sabotaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 sabotaged)

1. 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.

   • 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

   • 2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42)‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 July 2022:

     The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.

派生語

• self-sabotage

参考

• terrorism

参照

アナグラム

• boatages