sabotage
DELIBERATE, SUBVERSIVE ACTION AIMED AT WEAKENING ANOTHER ENTITY
Monkeywrenching; Sabotague; Saboteurs; Sabotager; Sabatoge; Saboteur; Put a spanner in the works; Sabotage radio; Sabotaging; Incident of sabotage; George T. Rheam; Self-sabotage; Self sabotage
['sab?t?:?]
¦ verb deliberately destroy or obstruct, especially for political or military advantage.
¦ noun the action of sabotaging.
Word History
Sabotage comes from the French verb saboter, which originally meant 'kick or strike with sabots', a sabot being a heavy wooden clog. Later it came to mean 'wilfully destroy' and was first used in English in the early 20th century, in reference to the wilful destruction by a workforce of their employer's property during a strike.